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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. Several of her books have also been turned into movies. Out is the first of her novels to appear in English.
Out is a terrifying delve into the human psyche and the hidden darkness that lies within. It takes you to the edge of the psychological border and then grabs you and throws you over. Four women work the same mundane graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory in downtown Tokyo. Sick of heavy debts, household chores and family problems, they all dream of a life away from it all. A young mother finally snaps and murders her gambling husband. Mosako and her co-workers agree to dismember and dispose of the body for her. However, they soon have more to fear than the police asking awkward questions. A ruthless nightclub owner has been falsely accused of the murder and he is out for revenge. Natsuo Kirino blends a lethal cocktail of feminism, desperation and bloody murder. She will leave you shaken to the bone and feeling like you've just survived an earthquake. (Kirkus UK)
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