Out: A Novel
 

Out: A Novel (Vintage International)

by Natsuo Kirino

Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery Out.

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... (read more)

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Pamela F
  • Rated 4 stars

A fascinating glimpse into a very different society and the lives of women whose lives are constrained by social that severely limit there choices. This novel contains graphic violence and brutality. It is not for the squeamish. All the friends that I have lent it to have found it as interesting as I did.

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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • Julie s

    julie s said:

    What an inventive author. This is one of the scariest crime fiction books I have ever read, and the plot twists and turns. I loved it.

    posted 2 weeks ago
  • Mark Z

    mark z said:

    I have about 25% to go...the more I read the better it gets. Masako is an amazing character!

    posted Tuesday, January 29 2008
  • Tracy V

    tracy v said:

    I've picked this book up and put it down again a number of times - having read the comments, I'm intrigued again -

    posted Monday, January 28 2008
  • Lee Tulloch

    lee tulloch said:

    Another fantastic Japanese crime writer. This gruesome tale of ordinary Japanese working women lured into an unspeakable act of horror is remarkable for its uncommon portrait of the dark underside of Japanese womens' lives. Her second novel, Grotesque, is not so successful, but worth a look.

    posted Tuesday, November 6 2007
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