Coin Locker Babies
of Ryƫ Murakami, Stephen Snyder (Translator)
Description
A surreal coming-of-age tale that establishes Ryu Murakami as one of the most inventive young writers in the world today. Abandoned at birth in adjacent train station lockers, two troubled boys spend their youth in an orphanage and with foster parents on a semi-deserted island before finally setting off for the city to find and destroy the women who first rejected them. Both are drawn to an area of freaks and hustlers called Toxitown. One becomes a bisexual rock singer, star of this exotic demimonde, while the other, a pole vaulter, seeks his revenge in the company of his girlfriend, Anemone, a model who has converted her condominium into a tropical swamp for her pet crocodile.Together and apart, their journey from a hot metal box to a stunning, savage climax is a brutal funhouse ride through the eerie landscape of late-twentieth-century Japan.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 393 pages
- Publisher Kodansha
- Publication Date August 9th 2002
- First Publication 10/28/80
- Language English
- ISBN 9784770028969
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Tokyo (Japan)']
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