'A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale' Japan Times 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. Raised amidst the outcasts and misfits of Toxitown, they carve out vastly different paths: one as a bisexual rock star on a desperate search for his mother, the other as an athlete consumed by revenge against the woman who left him behind. When their twisted journeys start to intertwine, this savage and stunning story plunges headlong into a surrealistic whirl of violence. 'Encapsulates the fin de siècle cultural detonation of Japanese youth' Kirkus

"'Ably encapsulates the fin de siècle 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

"Readers can live dynamically through the psychology of two rebels, moving alongside their ecstasies, melancholies, and many transformations" - Pen