Out
by:
Natsuo Kirino (author)
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.
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099472285 (0099472287)
ASIN: 99472287
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 520
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
Book Club,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Horror,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
Me, pages 1-385: this book is amazing! What an awesome, well written, thought provoking, female centric thriller!Me, pages 386-400:
My original OUT audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer. Out, an Edgar Award nominated crime novel out of Japan, is a deep, twisty, and complex thriller that is neither for the faint of heart, nor the uninitiated. Natsuo Kirino does a masterful job penning this tale o...
Warning: This book includes on-page instances of rape, torture, murder, and corpse dismemberment. On the plus side, there is a cat, and it is neither hurt (at least not that I remember) nor killed. I spent the whole book worrying that something was going to happen to that cat.Anyway, Out tells the s...
Este libro es un buen ejemplo de cómo puedes estar creando una historia estupenda e interesante y se te va de las manos y la pifias por completo. Es todo lo que puedo decir de momento.
Incredibly well-written but dark. Very dark.