Name: Coin Locker Babies
SKU: 55203285
Price: 519.00 TWD
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Author: Ryu Murakami
ISBN: 9781805330257

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Ryu Murakami

Publisher

Pushkin Press

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

507

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781805330257

Coin Locker Babies

Ryu Murakami (Author) · Pushkin Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Coin Locker Babies "

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. As they grow up, they join the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts, freaks and prostitutes. While one becomes a bisexual rock star searching for his mother, the other one, an athlete, seeks revenge on the woman who abandoned him.

This savage and stunning story unfolds in a surrealistic whirl of violence.

Ryu Murakami

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Ryū Murakami (村上龍) is a Japanese writer and film director born in Sasebo (Nagasaki) on February 19, 1952. His real name is Murakami Ryunosuke (村上龍之介?). Due to the surname coincidence with Haruki Murakami, in the eighties it was common to talk about the "two Murakamis", although they are not related and do not share much in literary terms.

His novels are often characterized by the rawness in descriptions and the violence of the narrated situations. Having lived near a U.S. military base in his native Sasebo allowed him to deeply understand American culture and idiosyncrasies. His most famous works are Almost Transparent Blue, from which Murakami directed its film adaptation,5 Miso Soup and Piercing.

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