Natsuo Kirino
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 English), in 1999. 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...
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Real World
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-38748-6 (0-307-38748-8)
July 14, 2009 | $17.99
In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with...
Written by Natsuo Kirino
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-38748-6 (0-307-38748-8)
July 14, 2009 | $17.99
In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with...
Real World
Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-26757-3 (0-307-26757-1)
July 15, 2008 | $27.95
A stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels Out and Grotesque.
In a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer and endless “cram school” sessions meant to ensure...
Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-26757-3 (0-307-26757-1)
July 15, 2008 | $27.95
A stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels Out and Grotesque.
In a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer and endless “cram school” sessions meant to ensure...
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Real World
eBook | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-26945-4 (0-307-26945-0)
July 15, 2008 | $17.99
In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with...
Written by Natsuo Kirino
eBook | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-26945-4 (0-307-26945-0)
July 15, 2008 | $17.99
In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with...
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Grotesque
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Suspense
978-1-4000-9659-6 (1-4000-9659-6)
February 12, 2008 | $18.95
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...
Written by Natsuo Kirino
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Suspense
978-1-4000-9659-6 (1-4000-9659-6)
February 12, 2008 | $18.95
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...
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Grotesque
eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-26729-0 (0-307-26729-6)
March 13, 2007 | $18.95
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...
Written by Natsuo Kirino
eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-26729-0 (0-307-26729-6)
March 13, 2007 | $18.95
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...
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Out
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction - Suspense
978-1-4000-7837-0 (1-4000-7837-7)
January 4, 2005 | $18.95
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...
Written by Natsuo Kirino
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction - Suspense
978-1-4000-7837-0 (1-4000-7837-7)
January 4, 2005 | $18.95
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...
