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(★)(Translated by Stephen Snyder／ 英文版 コインロッカー･ベイビーズ／ 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 demi-monde, 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.／ ◆Ryu Murakami was born in 1952 and grew up in the port city of Sasebo in western Japan before moving to Tokyo to study at the Musashino College of Art. Having quickly established himself as the enfant terrible of Japanese literature with ´Almost Transparent Blue´, Ryu Murakami remains at the cutting edge of popular culture in Japan. He is a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction, and has achieved cult-status for his movies and screenplays, including ´Tokyo Decadence´ and ´Audition´. Coin Locker Babies, his most ambitious work to date, will give readers a further taste of the incredibly agile imagination that has won him a huge following in Japan.) |
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