num_pages: 480
description: 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.
language: English
title: Grotesque
titlecomplete: Grotesque
genres: Asia, Thriller, Japanese Literature, Crime, Asian Literature, Horror, Japan, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 11922
places: Japan
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Izumi Kyoka Prize
publisher: Knopf