內容簡介
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.
''Grimly satisfying - like no one you''ve ever read before'' Kirkus Reviews
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作者介紹
NATSUO KIRINO, born in 1951, is one of the most popular literary writers in modern Japan. She won the Grand Prix for Crime Fiction in Japan for her 1998 novel Out, as well as one of Japan’s major literary awards—the Naoki Prize—for Soft Cheeks (coming soon from Knopf) the following year. Several of her books have also been turned into feature movies. Out was the first of her novels to appear in English and was nominated for an Edgar Award. She lives in Japan.
