num_pages: 393
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.
language: English
title: Coin Locker Babies
titlecomplete: Coin Locker Babies
characters: Kikuyuki Sekiguchi (Kiku), Hashio Mizouchi (Hashi)
genres: Asia, Thriller, Japanese Literature, Novels, Asian Literature, Literature, Horror, Japan, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 8086
places: Japan, Tokyo
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Noma Literary Prize 野間文芸賞
category: New Face Prize, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Japanese Novel
publisher: Kodansha