Four female factory workers get embroiled in a murky world of murder, dismemberment, yakuza hitmen and psychotic hoods, in this gleefully transgressive slice of Tokyo Noir.
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated 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. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions and more dangerous enemies begin to close in.
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.
'Grimly satisfying - like no one you've ever read before' Kirkus Reviews
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784875404
Number of pages: 528
Weight: 458 g
Dimensions: 190 x 134 x 40 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Daring and disturbing, OUT is prepared to push the limits of this world - not only in violence and sex but also in human outlook… Remarkable - Los Angeles Times
OUT is a potent cocktail of urban blight, perverse feminism and vigilante justice - New York Times Book Review
A shockingly intense read - Daily Telegraph
Brings the mystery thriller to new levels of intensity and realism - OUT has great plot twists, vigour and an ending that would make Hannibal Lecter smile - Library Journal
In this top-drawer page-turner, Kirino offers a clever snapshot of her own culture...slyly amusing and compulsive - Metro
OUT got my heart beating this year... The tone of the novel, flat and chill, fits its subject to perfection, and admiration for Kirino grows all the way - Rose Tremain, Daily Telegraph
The gritty realism comes across with pungent force - Publisher's Weekly
Grimly satisfying - like no one you've ever read before - Kirkus Reviews
No gritty urban American tale of violence can match the horror of OUT - USA Today
It’s bleak, twisted and heightened reality is compelling - Alastair Mabbott, Herald
