I was considering reading a couple of manga books, when I took out the front stacks of my TBR shelf and found this book. I also have Snow Flower, Secret Fan by Lisa Yee, but I also just recently read Memoirs of A Geisha and I wasn’t in the mood for another geisha novel so soon.
I have a bunch of Murakamis in my TBR, but I read Norwegian Wood last year and I don’t think I am ready for another one just yet. I had been mulling over my choices for this month’s FFP discussion, which will center around Japanese books. These are the haunting words on the back cover of the novel Out by female Japanese novelist Natsuo Kirino (Book #, Book 7 for diversity challenge – book discussion selection). I had a little difficulty with the names at first, but soon settled.… when you discover a taste for the unthinkable?
This story is a really rather good, even after having been translated from the Japanese. What happens when you cross the line….when you discover a taste for the unthinkable? The coolly intelligent Masako emerges as the plot’s ringleader, but quickly discovers that this killing is merely the beginning, as it leads to a terrifying foray into the violent underbelly of Japanese society.Īt once a masterpiece of literary suspense and pitch-black comedy of gender warfare, Out is also a moving evocation of the pressures and prejudices that drive women to extreme deeds, and the friendships that bolster them in the aftermath 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 seeks the help of her coworkers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime. Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery Out.
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