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Coin Locker Babies (Japanese for busy people) (Paperback)
$18.11 - Save $0.96 (5%) - RRP $19.07 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Coin Locker BabiesThis work, from one of Japan's most inventive young writers, traces the surreal adventures of two abandoned teenagers in the heart of Tokyo. Murakami's first novel, "Almost Transparent Blue", sold over one million copies on first publication.
Full description- Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd
- Published: 09 August 2002
- Format: Paperback 394 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Thrillers
- ISBN 13: 9784770028969 ISBN 10: 4770028962
- Sales rank: 72,957
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Full description for Coin Locker Babies
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.
