Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Crime & Thrillers, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9780099488934
Published: February 2008
Imprint: Vintage
Page Extent: 480
Format: Paperback
RRP 295.00

Grotesque

Natsuo Kirino

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Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo.

Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them.

But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan.

About the Author

Natsuo Kirino

Natsuo Kirino

Natsuo Kirino, born in 1951, quickly established a reputation in her country as one of a rare breed of mystery writers whose work goes well beyond the conventional crime novel. This fact has been demonstrated by her winning not only the Grand Prix for Crime Fiction in Japan for Out in 1998, but one of its major literary awards–the Naoki Prize–for Soft Cheeks (which has not yet been published in English), in 1999. Several of her books have also been turned into feature movies. Out was the first of her novels to appear in English and was nominated for an Edgar Award.

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