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Out (Special Edition) (Paperback)
Natsuo Kirino; Translated by Stephen B. Snyder
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Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on
a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves
and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister
exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward Kazue Sato
floats around among them, trying to fit in.Years later, Yuriko and
Kazue are dead -- both have become prostitutes and both have been
brutally murdered.
Natsuo Kirino, celebrated author of "Out," seamlessly weaves
together the stories of these women's struggles within the
conventions and restrictions of Japanese society. At once a
psychological investigation of the pressures facing Japanese women
and a classic work of noir fiction, "Grotesque" is a brilliantly
twisted novel of ambition, desire, beauty, cruelty, and identity by
one of our most electrifying writers.
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a
factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and
children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end
lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her
philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her
colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the
dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking
questions and more dangerous enemies begin to close in. OUT is a
psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest
recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the
desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do
the unimaginable. 'Grimly satisfying - like no one you've ever read
before' Kirkus Reviews VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five
masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.
On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is
admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the
Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld. But what will
happen when she returns to the island? Based on the Japanese myth
of Izanami and Izanagi, The Goddess Chronicle is a fantastical tour
de force about ferocious love and bitter revenge. The Myths series
brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom
has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in
the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt,
David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip
Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
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Real World (Paperback)
Natsuo Kirino
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In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade
their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi,
discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered,
the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he
flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him, the four girls
get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as
well as from the world around them. Psychologically intricate and
astute, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage
life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.
Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark,
tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino's
award-winning literary mystery Out."
"This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the
staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift
making boxed lunches strangles her abusive husband and then seeks
the help of her coworkers to dispose of the body and cover up her
crime. The coolly intelligent Masako emerges as the plot's
ringleader, but quickly discovers that this killing is merely the
beginning, as it leads to a terrifying foray into the violent
underbelly of Japanese society.
At once a masterpiece of literary suspense and pitch-black comedy
of gender warfare, Out is also a moving evocation of the pressures
and prejudices that drive women to extreme deeds, and the
friendships that bolster them in the aftermath.
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Out (Paperback)
Natsuo Kirino
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In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift
at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and
isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a
way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally
cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband then
confesses her crime to Masako, the closest of her colleagues. For
reasons of her own, Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks
the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the
body. The body parts are discovered, the police start asking
questions, but the women have far more dangerous enemies -a yakuza
connected loan shark who discovers their secret and has a business
proposition, and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are
convinced is guilty of the murder. He has lost everything as a
result of their crime and he is out for revenge. Out is a
psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest
recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the
desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do
the unimaginable.
In a place like no other, on an island in the shape of a tear drop,
two sisters are born into a family of the oracle. Kamikuu, with
creamy skin and almond eyes, is admired far and wide; Namima, small
but headstrong, learns to live in her sister's shadow. On her sixth
birthday, Kamikuu is presented with a feast of sea-serpent egg
soup, sashimi and salted fish, and a string of pure pearls. Kamikuu
has been chosen as the next Oracle, while Namima is shocked to
discover she must serve the goddess of darkness. So begins an
adventure that will take Namima from her first experience of love
to the darkness of the underworld. But what happens when she
returns to the island for revenge? Natsuo Kirino, the queen of
Japanese crime fiction, turns her hand to an exquisitely dark tale
based on the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi. A fantastical,
fabulous tour-de-force, it is a tale as old as the earth about
ferocious love and bitter revenge.
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Real World (Paperback)
Natsuo Kirino
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In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift
through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes.
There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken
and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour
remain a secret from those around her. Then Toshi's next-door
neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm,
the neighbour's son and a high school misfit. But when he
disappears (taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him) the four
girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of
brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well
as the world around them.
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