Grotesque: A Thriller - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Natsuo KirinoSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2008-02-12Pages:544
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400096596ISBN-10:1400096596UPC:9781400096596Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Psychological, Thrillers, NoirBook Topic:CrimeSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC0CD4N23A
Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward Kazue Sato floats around among them, trying to fit in.Years later, Yuriko and Kazue are dead -- both have become prostitutes and both have been...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400096596ISBN-10:1400096596UPC:9781400096596Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Psychological, Thrillers, NoirBook Topic:CrimeSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC0CD4N23A
Natsuo Kirino, born in 1951, quickly established a reputation in her country as one of a rare breed of mystery writers whose work goes well beyond the conventional crime novel. This fact has been demonstrated by her winning not only the Grand Prix for Crime Fiction in Japan for Out in 1998, but one of its major literary awards--the Naoki Prize--for Soft Cheeks (which has not yet been published in...
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