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Lädt ... Coin Locker Babies (1980)von Ryū Murakami
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book made my poisonous plant loving heart sing. Kalynn writes strong characters, from the side to the main, everyone is well developed and has all the good and bad you'd find in your own life. So much emotion from each person is packed into this book, so I am warning you now to grab a tissue. When we meet Briseis, she is cautious, reserved and always tense from holding back her powers. But when we leave her, she has come to life. Bold, daring and confident, her growth in this story is one of my favorite parts. She makes mistakes, miss judges, and fumbles but she keeps pushing forward to discover the secrets of her family lineage. The author captures her age so perfectly, none of the weird whiny YA trope junk. Just a girl trying to find her way as a young adult, in a world that won't understand her powers. I loved her family, her parents are so nurturing, and warm with the right amount of stern / spice. It was impossible to put this book down to life, the story moves forward in a way that keeps you engaged with the action, while building up lore. The tie ins for Greek mythology is fantastic. There aren't enough stories about hecate, and I adored Kalynn's take on history. All of the magical / witch type elements are mysterious, yet believable. I hope we get more in depth history of some of the town folk as the series progresses. I can't wait for the next book in this series, the ending is such a huge cliffhanger, yet completely wraps up the plot for this book, which is insane. You'll love this book if you love magic in plain sight, family history, and modern day quests. Two boys, Hashi and Kiku, separately abandoned in coin lockers as newborns, somewhat miraculously survive their poor start in life only to discover that what follows makes their beginnings seem positively mundane. The boys are adopted together and their lives are forever linked. Kiku grows strong and athletic, a pole-vaulter with blinding speed. Hashi discovers that he has a talent for song, or perhaps more accurately sound, which he uses to envelop and overwhelm his audiences. But they’ve both got a lot of anger management issues and a compulsive desire for, first, matricide (if only they could find their missing biological mothers) and beyond that the destruction of everything and everyone else. Moving from one extreme, even surreal, situation to the next the boys eventually find their way to Tokyo and, in different ways, realize their dreams, or nightmares. Nothing will really prepare you for the aggressive violence of this novel, unless you’ve been saturated by the endless violent imagery of much anime and Japanese cinema. Whether that itself is a result of the influence of Murakami’s writing or was the nascent spur to it, I do not know. The effect, however, on current readers is probably less visceral than it may have been in the 1980s when this book first burst upon the scene in Japan. Indeed I found the heightened teen angst and anger tiresome and much of the violence to be risible, even though I could acknowledge how groundbreaking this might have appeared at the time. In the end it just couldn’t hold my interest. Not recommended, even if your favourite niece doing a degree in Japanese Studies tells you you’ve just got to read it. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Hashi und Kiku wurden nach ihrer Geburt in M?nzschlie f?chern zur?ckgelassen. Die beiden Jungs verbringen ihre Jugend zun?chst im Waisenhaus und sp?ter bei Pflegeeltern auf einer verlassenen Insel, bevor sie schlie lich in die Stadt ziehen, um die Frauen, die sie wegegeben hatten, zu finden und zu vernichten. Gemeinsam oder getrennt ist ihre Reise vom M?nzschlie fach zu einem atemberaubenden, wilden H?hepunkt eine Achterbahnfahrt durch die unheimliche Landschaft eines Japan im sp?ten zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Nachdem sie ihre Zieheltern verlassen hatten zieht es beide ins Giftghetto, eine von Freaks und Strichern belebte Gegend. W?hrend sich Hashi zu einem bisexuellen Rocks?nger entwickelt, Star in dieser exotischen Halbwelt, sucht Kiku, seine Rache in Gesellschaft seiner Freundin, einem Modell, die ihre Wohnung in einen tropischen Sumpf f?r ihr Krokodil umgewandelt hat. Doch die Rachepl?ne die Kiku verolgt gehen weiter als blos seine Mutter zu finden ... Coin Locker Babys nennt man in ?ffentliche Schlie f?cher abgelegte Neugeborene. Diese Praxis findet man h?ufig in Japan oder China vor. Es ist nahezu ausgeschlossen, dass ein Baby dies ?berlebt.Coin Locker Babys ist eine surreale Coming-of-Age-Geschichte in einem Japan der nahen Zukunft, die Ryu Murakami als einen der einfallsreichsten Autoren der Welt etablierte. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This rollercoaster ride follows the tale of two foster brothers, Kiku and Hashi - both abandoned at birth, and growing up warped as a result. Both find their lives extremely wanting, and as a result, find different ways to cope with the emotional baggage they lug around - one finds solace in singing, and one in DATURA - a mind-bending plot device that you have to read to believe.
This is the polarizing kind of masterpiece that you'll forever be in two minds of - in happiness that it exists, as a fine example of human creativity, and despair that a human mind managed to think up of the plot, the scenery and the characters. If alcohol were a book - this would be it. Always enjoyed in small doses, and difficult to return to once finished - because you don't want the hangover again. ( )