Coin Locker Babies

Born in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture RYU MURAKAMI is the <i>enfant terrible</i> of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. Murakami is also a screenwriter and director; among his films are <i>Tokyo Decadence</i> <i>Audition </i>and <i>Because of You</i>. His novels<i> Sixty-Nine</i> <i>Popular Hits of the Showa Era</i> and <i>From the Fatherland with Love</i> are also available from Pushkin Press. <p><b>A cult cyberpunk masterpiece and Ryu Murakami's most famous novel</b><br><br>Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As they grow up they join the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts freaks and prostitutes. While one becomes a bisexual rock star searching for his mother the other one an athlete seeks revenge on the woman who abandoned him.<br><br>This savage and stunning story unfolds in a surrealistic whirl of violence</p>