Coin Locker Babies
 

Coin Locker Babies

by Ryu Murakami

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... (read more)

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mundivagant
  • Rated 5 stars

pole vaulting, crocodiles and DATURA!
a truly f*cking fantastic original for
a change, not merely a recent read

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