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Natsuo Kirino

Start date: April 15, 2009

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Aug 28, 2009 tee rated it liked it

Shelves: i-own

I think that I liked/enjoyed (both rather innappropriate words to use considering the subject matter of the book) - more than 'Grotesque'. A lot of other people have described the book quite well in their reviews on goodreads so I'll skip on doing a rundown of what the book was about.

As for what I thought about it? All I could think the entire time whilst reading this was exactly what I thought when I was reading Grotesque; I don't know how the author sleeps at night. Maybe she doesn't. Maybe s ...more

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Jul 05, 2014 Curious Squid rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, thrillers, gangsters

Basic synopsis: a woman kills her husband and her co-workers try to help her cover it up, and avoid getting caught.

When not being a terribly dark and gruesome book, it is an interesting look at modern Japanese women, and the struggles they face to make ends meet.

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Apr 06, 2009 Michelle rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, constant-reader

This is why bookclubs are great: This is so not a book that I would have chosen on my own. But after having read (and loved) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, along with my love of all things Japanese, I was really looking forward to this. Totally worth it. Definitely dark and disturbing at times, but the characters are real enough that you want to know more about them and see how everything turns out for them.

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