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Description for Out
Paperback. 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. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 368.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099472285
SKU
9780099472285
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Ref
99-1
About Natsuo Kirino
Natsuo Kirino, born in 1951, quickly established a reputation in Japan as one of a rare breed of crime writer whose work goes well beyond the conventional crime novel. This fact has been demonstrated by her winning not only Japan's top mystery award, for Out, but one of its major literary awards, the Naoki Prize, for Soft Cheeks, followed by ... Read more
Reviews for Out
Daring 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
OUT is a potent cocktail of urban blight, perverse feminism and vigilante justice
New York Times Book Review
A shockingly intense read
Daily Telegraph
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Los Angeles Times
OUT is a potent cocktail of urban blight, perverse feminism and vigilante justice
New York Times Book Review
A shockingly intense read
Daily Telegraph
... Read more