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Grotesque, March 2007
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Knopf
March 2007
On Sale: March 13, 2007
480 pages
ISBN: 1400044944
EAN: 9781400044948
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Natsuo Kirino made a spectacular fiction debut on these
shores with the publication of Edgar Award-nominated Out
(“Daring and disturbing . . . Prepared to push the limits of
this world . . . Remarkable”—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
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 classic work of
noir fiction. It is a stunning novel, a book that confirms
Natsuo Kirino’s electrifying gifts.
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