Natsuo Kirino, Author, Rebecca L. Copeland, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Rebecca Copeland. Knopf $24.95 (467p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4494-8
Readers with a taste for ambiguity and oddball characters will enjoy this twisted novel of suspense from Japanese author Kirino (Out
). The Apartment Serial Murders case, which involved the brutal killings of two Tokyo prostitutes, has gripped the...
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trans. from the Japanese by Rebecca Copeland. Grove, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2109-7
Kirino (Real World) wows with her latest novel. On an unnamed small island, two sisters grow up, just a year apart in age. Kamikuu, the eldest, is destined to be the island’s next Oracle, following in their grandmother Mikura-sama’s footsteps. On...
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Natsuo Kirino, Author, Philip Gabriel, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Knopf $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-307-26757-3
Between the groans of a smog alert siren at the outset of this gripping noir from Kirino (Out
), Tokyo high school student Toshi Yamanaka hears what sounds like glass shattering next door. Might a burglar be at work? Later, after learning that a...
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Natsuo Kirino, Author, Stephen Snyder, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. Kodansha $22.95 (359p) ISBN 978-4-7700-2905-8
Four women who work the night shift in a Tokyo factory that produces boxed lunches find their lives twisted beyond repair in this grimly compelling crime novel, which won Japan's top mystery award, the Grand Prix, for its already heralded author,
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