Coin Locker Babies

Informationen zum Autor Born in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture! Ryu Murakami is the enfant terrible 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. His novels include Coin Locker Babies ! Sixty-Nine ! From the Fatherland! with Love and Popular Hits of the Showa Era ! all published by Pushkin Press! as well as Audition and In the Miso Soup . Murakami is also a screenwriter and director; among his films are Tokyo Decadence ! Audition and Because of You . Klappentext Coin Locker Babies is Ryu Murakami's cult cyperpunk novel. 'A cyber-Bildungsroman of playful breadth and uncertain depth' Publishers Weekly 'A fascinating peek into the weirdness of contemporary Japan' Oliver StoneMurakami's cult - and most famous - cyberpunk novel Zusammenfassung Coin Locker Babies is Ryu Murakami's cult cyperpunk novel. 'A cyber-Bildungsroman of playful breadth and uncertain depth' Publishers Weekly 'A fascinating peek into the weirdness of contemporary Japan' Oliver Stone

Product details

• Authors: Ryu Murakami, Ryu (Author) Murakami, Murakami Ryu
• Assisted by: Stephen Snyder (Translation), Stephen (Translator) Snyder (Translation), Snyder Stephen (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.05.2013
• EAN: 9781908968470
• ISBN: 978-1-908968-47-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary