Natsuo Kirino

Broschiertes Buch

Grotesque

Beschreibung

Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo. Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan.

Autor

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 two of its major literary awards, the Naoki Prize and the Tanizaki Prize. Her novels available in English are Out, Grotesque, Real World, In, The Goddess Chronicle and Swallows.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 545641
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780099488934
• ISBN-10: 0099488930
• Artikelnr.: 22849127

Rezensionen

Delves so deep beyond its own shock horror premise that much contemporary crime fiction looks like cheap, exploitative rubbish by comparison ....an utterly absorbing novel that gives as vivid - and disturbing - a picture of contemporary Japan as you could imagine Metro