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By: Natsuo Kirino ; translated by Stephen Snyder.
Contributors: Snyder, Stephen, 1957-
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher: Vintage International
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Yakuza -- Japan -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. A young mother among them strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to Masako, the closest of her colleagues, who agrees to assist. Masako seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the body.
Notes: Published in Japanese under the same title by Kodansha Ltd. in 1997.
"Winner of Japan's grand prix for crime fiction, Edgar Award finalist"--Cover.c