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Coin Locker Babies 

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Ryu MurakamiCoin Locker Babies (1997)
A novel by Ryu Murakami

 
"Its power grabbed me by the heart."
Banana Yoshimoto


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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Hardback Editions

October 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 193223439XTitle: Towards a Beautiful Country: My Vision For Japan
Author(s): Shinzo Abe
ISBN: 1-932234-39-X / 9781932234398 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vertical
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January 2002 : Hardback
Title: Coin Locker Babies
Author(s): Ryu MURAKAMI
Publisher: NY: Kodansha
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January 1995 : Hardback
Title: Coin Locker Babies
Author(s): Ryu Murakami
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
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Paperback Editions

January 2002 : Paperback
Title: Coin Locker Babies
Author(s): Ryu Murakami
Publisher: Kodansha
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January 1998 : Paperback
Title: Coin Locker Babies
Author(s): Ryu. MURAKAMI
Publisher: Kodansha International, NY
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1995 : Paperback
Title: COIN LOCKER BABIES.
Author(s): Ryu. Murakami
Publisher: KODANSHA.
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