Coin Locker Babies

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Two infants, abandoned in coin lockers at a Tokyo train station, survive against all odds. Raised together in an orphanage and then by adoptive parents on a remote island, Hashi and Kiku grow into young men shaped by a single furious question: who left them there, and why? Their search for answers takes them to Tokyo, where their paths split into radically different obsessions. One chases fame in the city's underground music scene; the other hunts for a mysterious chemical weapon called Datura. Ryū Murakami builds their parallel descents into a vision of Japan that is hallucinatory, violent, and impossibly alive. This is the novel that established Murakami as one of Japan's most fearless writers — a punk epic about abandonment, rage, and the desperate need to destroy the world that rejected you.