Grotesque
of Natsuo Kirino, Rebecca Copeland (Translator)
Description
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 Yuriko’s older sister, we are taken back to their time in a prestigious girls’ high school—where a strict social hierarchy decided their fates — 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 work of noir fiction that confirms Natsuo Kirino’s electrifying gifts.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 480 pages
- Publisher Knopf
- Publication Date March 13th 2007
- First Publication 10/28/03
- Language English
- ISBN 9781400044948
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Japan']
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