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 Conin Locker Babies, Sixty-Nine, From the Fatherland, with Love. Murakami is also a screenwriter and director; among his films are Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.
'Ably encapsulates the fin de siecle cultural detonation of
Japanese youth... Snyder's agile translation preserves much of the
shock, beauty, and pathos in this apocalyptic minisaga of troubled
times' - Kirkus
'Ryu Murakami is known for the sex-drugs-and-violence style of his
fiction and Coin Locker Babies has it all... A cyberpunk
coming-of-age tale' - Japan Times
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