Natsuo Kirino made a spectacular fiction debut on these shores with the publication of Edgar Award-nominated Out (â€œDaring and disturbing . . . Prepared to push the limits of this world .

Grotesque
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Natsuo Kirino made a spectacular fiction debut on these shores with the publication of Edgar Award-nominated Out (â€œDaring and disturbing . . . Prepared to push the limits of this world . . . Remarkableâ€â€”Los Angeles Times). Unanimously lauded for her unique, psychologically complex, darkly compelling vision and voice, she garnered a multitude of enthusiastic fans eager for more.
In her riveting new novel Grotesque, Kirino once again depicts a barely known Japan. This is the story of three Japanese women and the interconnectedness of beauty and cruelty, sex and violence, ugliness and ambition in their lives.
Tokyo prostitutes Yuriko and Kazue have been brutally murdered, their deaths leaving a wake of unanswered questions about who they were, who their murderer is, and how their lives came to this end. As their stories unfurl in an ingeniously layered narrative, coolly mediated by Yurikoâ€™s older sister, we are taken back to their time in a prestigious girlsâ€™ high schoolâ€”where a strict social hierarchy decided their fatesâ€”and follow them through the years as they struggle against rigid societal conventions.
Shedding light on the most hidden precincts of Japanese society today, Grotesque is both a psychological investigation into the female psyche and a classic work of noir fiction. It is a stunning novel, a book that confirms Natsuo Kirinoâ€™s electrifying gifts.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2007-03-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400044948

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2007-03-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400044948

Grotesque

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