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Underrated Pick #1: Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino (2003)
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.
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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467 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099488934
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 07 February 2008
fiction
crime
mystery
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
fiction
crime
mystery
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
467 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099488934
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 07 February 2008
fiction
crime
mystery
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
fiction
crime
mystery
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
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