Babies of the left-luggage lockers

the Babies of the left-luggage lockers is a Japanese novel of Ryū Murakami published in 1980.

Summary

Hashi and Kiku, two babies given up in an instruction of station, pass their early childhood in a Orphelinat. The search for their identity will involve them in the hollows of Tokyo, where Hashi male prostitute before becoming a singer of Rock adulated while Kiku, champion of Saut to the pole, is found in prison for Parricide.

Comment

This thick novel (approximately 500 pages) is one of major works of Ryû Murakami: the reader saw there the mental deliquescence of two young children who starting from their initial traumatism, the abandonment in the racks of a station, little by little both will sink in the madness and the destruction of what is external for them.

The book abounds more lost supporting characters all the ones than others, than it is: their adoptive parents, Anemone the boyfriend of Kiku, Mister D, the manager of Hashi.

This book perspires Tokyo has a cast and terribly attracting which remains a ground of mysteries, well far from the clean and asepticized stereotypes Nipponese capital.

The sex, the Violence, the Mental disease and physics, the Hatred, the Cruelty: all the low and weak feelings of the man are joined together in this philosopher's stone to symbolize the so poignant humanity of the two abandoned heroes which cannot communicate any more but by the violence and the rejection of their own identity The babies of the left-luggage lockers is regarded as a strong and authentic reading and an intense experiment.

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