Out
  • Published: 3 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784875404
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $26.00

Out

(Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

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3 Dec 2019
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2 Aug 2018
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1 Nov 2004
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VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.

A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions and more dangerous enemies begin to close in.

OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.
  • Published: 3 December 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784875404
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Natsuo Kirino

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 and In.

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Praise for Out

OUT got my heart beating this year... The tone of the novel, flat and chill, fits its subject to perfection, and admiration for Kirino grows all the way

Rose Tremain, Daily Telegraph

A shockingly intense read

Daily Telegraph

Daring and disturbing, OUT is prepared to push the limits of this world - not only in violence and sex but also in human outlook… Remarkable

Los Angeles Times

OUT is a potent cocktail of urban blight, perverse feminism and vigilante justice

New York Times Book Review

Brings the mystery thriller to new levels of intensity and realism - OUT has great plot twists, vigour and an ending that would make Hannibal Lecter smile

Library Journal

The gritty realism comes across with pungent force

Publisher's Weekly

Grimly satisfying - like no one you've ever read before

Kirkus Reviews

In this top-drawer page-turner, Kirino offers a clever snapshot of her own culture...slyly amusing and compulsive

Metro

No gritty urban American tale of violence can match the horror of OUT

USA Today

It’s bleak, twisted and heightened reality is compelling

Alastair Mabbott, Herald