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| Title | : | Grotesque |
| Author | : | Natsuo Kirino |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 480 pages |
| Published | : | March 13th 2007 by Knopf (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Mystery. Crime. Horror |
Natsuo Kirino
Hardcover | Pages: 480 pages Rating: 3.69 | 8982 Users | 925 Reviews
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Tokyo prostitutes Yuriko and Kazue have been brutally murdered, their deaths leaving a wake of unanswered questions about who they were, who their murderer is, and how their lives came to this end. As their stories unfurl in an ingeniously layered narrative, coolly mediated by Yuriko’s older sister, we are taken back to their time in a prestigious girls’ high school—where a strict social hierarchy decided their fates — and follow them through the years as they struggle against rigid societal conventions. Shedding light on the most hidden precincts of Japanese society today, Grotesque is both a psychological investigation into the female psyche and a work of noir fiction that confirms Natsuo Kirino’s electrifying gifts.Define Books Supposing Grotesque
| Original Title: | グロテスク [Gurotesuku] |
| ISBN: | 1400044944 (ISBN13: 9781400044948) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Japan |
| Literary Awards: | Izumi Kyoka Prize (2003) |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 8982 Users | 925 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books Grotesque
Few books start with a crackerjack opening; Lolita, Anna Karenina, The Journalist and the Murderer and Tale of Two Cities are the only other ones I know of. This is the 5th. And for a while she reuses the opening idea when other characters are introduced. An innovative technique.That is, she's walking down the street, see's a man she's attracted to,and begins to wonder what a baby would look like if she had one with him.His eyes? His mouth? His chin? His ???Do women all around the world thinkI'm hovering between a 2 and 3 star rating for Grotesque. I think the main reason that I'm leaning towards a 2, is that the book felt tedious. But the lives of these people were tedious so really I was just feeling the emotion of the novel. I also struggled with reading a book where every character was so horrible; and not really horrible in an interesting way - like an outrageous gangster, or a powerful, crooked politician; horrible in a way that is similar to the vein of nastiness that
I loved the author's earlier book, OUT, an incredibly compelling, as well as impossibly horrific & beautiful (if a bit too wild and implausible at the very end), novel. GROTESQUE is not as masterful although it is compelling in its own way. In this novel, Natsuo Kirino also deals with the lives of women in contemporary Japanese society, here through the lens of a cut-throat competitive educational system, the Q High School for Young Women. The principal narrator is a "half" (only
Let me start by saying that I am a big fan of Natsuo Kirino. I sincerely hope that more of her books will be translated into english in the future, because now I have read all of them. Though many people credit Out as Kirino's best, I enjoyed Grotesque more than Out.There are several narrators in this novel, and each felt whole and real as if they were people I knew. There is Yuriko, Kazue, Zhang, and Yuriko's unnamed sister. This sister is the main narrator, with the other stories told as found
Rating 4* out of 5 stars. This book peers into the abyss of human conceit. "I will launch my boat on a sea of hatred, mye eye on the far shore, wondering when I might make land." Those are the words of the main narrator, who calls herself heartless. I couldn't find her name anywhere, maybe it was mentioned. The story revolves around the murder of Yuriko, the narrator's younger sister, and Kazue. All three women were ones studens at a well-known highschool. It is a study in evil. None of the
I don't think I will be able to clearly articulate how I feel about it. I put the books on my shelves of "Psychology," "Mystery-Crime," "Foreign/translated lit" and "Society/Culture" because it does encompass all this, even as a work of fiction. Or perhaps especially as a work of fiction. This book is told through first-person narratives. There's the initial unnamed narrator who is half Japanese-half Swiss. This story takes place in Japan, though some characters look to their past to events in
a complex tale of class discrimination and sexual inequality. Natsuo Kirino may be the most socially astute of the current Japanese writers. She criticizes many things about Japanese culture; the role of women, the unfairness of the competitive school system, among others. She writes how this dehumanizes the participant, especially women. She does this in a harrowing tale of three women told by the older sister of a murdered prostitute. The story proceeds Rashomon style, narrated by the sister
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