Grotesque

✍ Scribed by Kirino, Natsuo

• Book ID: 107678242
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 566 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307267290

✦ Synopsis

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 brutally murdered.

Natsuo Kirino, celebrated author of Out , seamlessly weaves together the stories of these women's struggles within the conventions and restrictions of Japanese society. At once a psychological investigation of the pressures facing Japanese women and a classic work of noir fiction, Grotesque is a brilliantly twisted novel of ambition, desire, beauty, cruelty, and identity by one of our most electrifying writers.

From the Trade Paperback edition.