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Out by Natsuo Kirino

Out

Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder

Unknown publisher · Print & ebook · Unknown

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory.

Crime FictionPsychological ThrillersInternational Crime FictionThriller
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Themes
Desire for freedom, Economic hardship and isolation, Crime and complicity
Genres
International Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction, Psychological Thrillers
Published
Unknown publisher, Unknown

Who it’s for

  • Readers interested in women confronting debt, isolation, and dead-end lives
  • Readers drawn to crime plots about coworkers concealing a murder

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About this book

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated 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 then confesses her crime to Masako, the closest of her colleagues.

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For reasons of her own, Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the body. The body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions, but the women have far more dangerous enemies -a yakuza connected loan shark who discovers their secret and has a business proposition, and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder. He has lost everything as a result of their crime and he is out for revenge. 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. REAL WORLD: New Natsuo Kirino coming out in September 2008 Read more

Where it sits

International Crime Fiction68%
Psychological Thrillers45%
Crime Fiction28%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Authors
Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder
Publisher
Unknown publisher
Published
Unknown
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Desire for freedom · Economic hardship and isolation · Crime and complicity