Out (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) Natsuo Kirino Formats & editions. In this top-drawer page-turner, Kirino offers a clever snapshot of her own culture. VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list. Grimly satisfying - like no one you've ever read before Kirkus Reviews The gritty realism comes across with pungent force Publisher's Weekly OUT is a potent cocktail of urban blight, perverse feminism and vigilante justice New York Times Book Reviewīrings the mystery thriller to new levels of intensity and realism - OUT has great plot twists, vigour and an ending that would make Hannibal Lecter smile Library Journal The tone of the novel, flat and chill, fits its subject to perfection, and admiration for Kirino grows all the way Rose Tremain, Daily TelegraphĪ shockingly intense read Daily Telegraphĭaring and disturbing, OUT is prepared to push the limits of this world - not only in violence and sex but also in human outlook… Remarkable Los Angeles Times VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. 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. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions and more dangerous enemies begin to close in.

She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.Ī young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory.

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list

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