Ryū Murakami
Trade Paperback | Pages: 393 pages Rating: 3.68 | 7380 Users | 401 Reviews
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| Title | : | Coin Locker Babies |
| Author | : | Ryū Murakami |
| Book Format | : | Trade Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 393 pages |
| Published | : | August 9th 2002 by Kodansha (first published October 28th 1980) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Horror. Thriller |
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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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| Original Title: | コインロッカー・ベイビーズ [Koinrokkā Beibīzu] |
| ISBN: | 4770028962 (ISBN13: 9784770028969) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Kikuyuki Sekiguchi (Kiku), Hashio Mizouchi (Hashi) |
| Setting: | Tokyo(Japan) |
| Literary Awards: | Noma Literary Prize 野間文芸賞 for New Face Prize (1981), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Japanese Novel (1981) |
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Ratings: 3.68 From 7380 Users | 401 ReviewsNotice Of Books Coin Locker Babies
I already knew that Ryu Murakami likes to delve into areas that most readers would find uncomfortable, but Coin Locker Babies leaps head first into a socio-psychological pool of toxics that will probably send most readers running for the relative safety of Fifty Shades of Gray. Coin Locker Babies is one of those books like American Psycho and We Need to Talk About Kevin that alternately repulses and amaze. I found it to be a surreal mixture of horror, social commentary and dark comedy that neverWhen the book starts with words "the woman started sucking baby's penis and it was smaller than cigarettes that she was smoking..." you know that this is a fucked up story. I wasn't able to finish it because it was too weird even for me, although it was weirdly enjoyable...
No review necessary- this is great and you should read if you like this guy's writing.
ryu murakami is my best friend
A mentally exhausting but still addictive book about two adopted siblings, Hashi and Kiku, who share the bond of abandonment - rescued from coin lockers on the same day as infants. As adults they are fed up with the sick, seedy world and everyone in it and look to destroy it or destroy themselves trying.It stays twinging in your brain like the bug of Hashi's fable, crawling up into your thoughts and taking them over. No matter how you feel about it, it is impossible to forget.Coin Locker Babies
There was a lot happening here. A lot. Hookers, teenage hustlers, run-of-the-mill drugs, weird sex, a pet alligator, more weird sex, self-mutilation, addiction, experimental top secret drugs, clunky POV shifts, insanity, anarchy, a rock star whose voice causes nausea, and some more sex. Then some stuff happens to Tokyo and somebody has an epiphany. The end.It read a lot, in fact, like an earlier, more convoluted iteration of Popular Hits of the Showa Era, though the nihilism was less cheerful
Coin Locker Babies is one of most surreal books I've ever read. An angry, postmodern existentialist tale told with such detailed descriptive power, Ryū Murakami has crafted an utterly compelling novel about two adopted brothers, both abandoned in coin lockers, and their mentally and physically destructive upbringing into young adults. Hashi becomes a famous bisexual singer with an ever growing need to stab his pregnant wife and Kiku becomes a physically intimidating pole vaulter who, with his
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