by Natsuo Kirino · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467225822
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«Out» is the suspense novel by Natsuo Kirino, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (560 pages, in Spanish).
Four women trapped in precarious jobs and unsatisfying domestic lives share a shift at a prepared-food factory in Tokyo. When one of them kills her husband, the others help her dispose of the corpse and fall prey to a blackmailer linked to the yakuza. It is a descent into the darkest side of Japanese society.
With a translation by Albert Nolla, the novel was originally published in 1997 and won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award.
A work for readers of suspense and crime fiction interested in contemporary Japanese narrative.
Natsuo Kirino is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.
