Coin locker babies
ISBN: | 4770015909, 9784770015907, 1908968478, 9781908968470 |
OCLC Number: | 32130835, 840685140 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
Author: | Ryu Murakami |
Translator: | Stephen Snyder |
Language: | en |
Publisher: | Kodansha International, Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America, 1995, 1998, 2002; Pushkin Press, 2013 |
Publication Place: | Tokyo, New York, London |
Japanese Copyright Year: | 1980 |
English Publication Date: | 1995 |
Notes: | Japanese title: Koin rokka beibizu |
Abstract: | The story of two babies abandoned in a locker at a railroad station. They grow up to represent the darker side of Japanese youth, lacking tradition and religion. One brother becomes a male prostitute, then a rock star, the other goes to jail and becomes involved in a plot to poison Tokyo. By the author of 69. |
Subjects: | Ryu Murakami, Translations into English Tokyo, Japan, Fiction |