japanese literature in english

Coin locker babies

Translated by: Stephen Snyder

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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.

Japanese title: Koin rokka beibizu
Subjects: Ryu Murakami, Translations into English
Tokyo, Japan, Fiction
Notes: Japanese title: Koin rokka beibizu
Description: 393 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9784770015907
9781908968470
OCLC Number: 32130835, 840685140
Genre: Fiction
Document Type: Book
Publisher: Kodansha International, Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America, 1995, 1998, 2002; Pushkin Press, 2013
Publication Place: Tokyo, New York, London
Japanese Publication Date: 1980
English Publication Date: 1995

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