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Price
$9.99
Publisher
Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
Publication Date
Unabridged edition (September 20, 2016
ISBN-13
978-1531889449
Dimensions
6.5 x 0.63 x 5.5 inches
Weight
3.5 ounces
Description
About the Author Natsuo Kirino is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.
Features & Highlights
- Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino's award-winning literary mystery
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- This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive husband and then seeks the help of her coworkers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime. The coolly intelligent Masako emerges as the plot's ringleader but quickly discovers that this killing is merely the beginning, as it leads to a terrifying foray into the violent underbelly of Japanese society.
- At once a masterpiece of literary suspense and pitch-black comedy of gender warfare,
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- is also a moving evocation of the pressures and prejudices that drive women to extreme deeds and the friendships that bolster them in the aftermath.
