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by Natsuo Kirino
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thebookcoop
thebookcoop rated it 15 years ago
I liked this book up to the last two pages in which I'm not sure I wholly agreed with it ending the way it did. I will have to go back over it and read it again.Grotesque is a vicious attack on Japanese society, the class system and the disparities between men and women, to the point that occasional...
coffee & ink
coffee & ink rated it 17 years ago
Fantastic and very disturbing feminist noir about the pressures on four women who were once classmates at a prestigious Japanese high school: the unnamed narrator of most of the book, half-Japanese and half-white, who hates and is profoundly jealous of her monstrously beautiful sister, Yuriko; Yurik...
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