- Bib ID:
- 154923
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Murakami, Ryu, 1952-
- Uniform Title:
- Koin rokka beibizu. English
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International : Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America, 1995
- pages cm.
- ISBN:
- 4770015909
- Summary:
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Abandoned at birth in train station lockers, two troubled boys are raised in an orphanage and by foster parents on a semi-deserted island before setting off for the city to find and destroy the women who first rejected them. Twisted together like a strand of DNA coded for ultimate havoc, both are drawn to an area of freaks and hustlers called Toxitown in the heart of Tokyo. One becomes a bisexual rock singer, star of this exotic demimonde, while the other, a pole vaulter, seeks out revenge in the company of his girlfriend, Anemone, a model who has converted her condominium into a tropical swamp to keep her pet crocodile in. Together and apart, their journey from a hot metal box to a stunning, savage climax takes us on a brutal funhouse ride through the eerie landscape of late-twentieth-century Japan.
- Subject:
- Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
- Copyright:
-
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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