Coin Locker Babies - Softcover

Murakami, Ryu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4770028962 ISBN 13: 9784770028969

Verlag: Kodansha International Ltd, 2002

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A surreal coming-of-age tale from one of today's most inventive writers

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RYU MURAKAMI was born in 1952. The only son of schoolteacher parents, he grew up in the port city of Sasebo in southwestern Japan. After graduating from a local high school, where he played the drums in a band called Coelacanth, he went to an art college in Tokyo. It was while studying there that he entered his first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, in a competition for new writers. Published in 1976, the book won a major literary award and sold over a million copies. Since then, he has worked for a publishing house, presented a weekly music and interview radio program, and hosted a TV talk show. His literary output includes two collections of stories Run, Takahashi (1985) and Topaz (1988), and the novel Coin Locker Babies (1980), which made its debut in English early in 1995. His roman a clef 69 appeared in English in 1993. He has also directed four movies based on his writing, causing a sensation at an Italian film festival when Tokyo Decadence was shown there in 1992. His latest film is set in the U.S. and Cuba.

STEVEN SNYDER, the translator, is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Among his first-rate translations from Japanese are Kunio Tsuji's The Signore: Shogun of the Warring States, which won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize; Ryu Murakami's Coin Locker Babies; Kenzaburo Oe's A Healing Family; and the forthcoming Out by Natsuo Kirino.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Kodansha International Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 4770028962
• ISBN 13: 9784770028969
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 394
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