Out
by Natsuo Kirino
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Author: Natsuo KirinoTranslator: Stephen Snyder
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07-11
ISBN: 4770029055
Number of pages: 360
Publisher: Kodansha USA
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Book Review: "OUT" for adventure and something new.
Summary: 4 Stars
This book rocked.
Which sounds juvenile and simplistic but applies all the same. I was looking for something differant to take me away from the doldrums of January and OUT certainly fit the bill.
The four women who sit central to the storyline inhabit lives of "quiet desperation" and the book chronicles the transition of each into worlds wild and unfamiliar. Some fare better than others.
Without question the coolest aspect of the book is the fact that it outlines a murder committed in a foreign country. A country whose culture is vastly different from ours. This makes the tiniest things new and interesting. Money, home layouts, family relationships are all turned on their head in the unfamiliar terrain of suburban Japan. I loved this and felt like I was experiencing Crime Fiction on a new level. It was great.
As a mystery the plotline is effective and keeps the readers' attention with unexpected twists and turns. Kirino also manages to make dark and unsympathetic characters compelling. You are repulsed by their crimes yet ache with sympathy for their empty and unrelentingly difficult lives. Obviously we are not talking about CRIME AND PUNISHMENT here. Dostoyevsky can rest easy but OUT is great fun despite the rather bland translation by Stephen Snyder. Tokyo comes alive and if this novel is any indication of Natsuo Kirino's body of work, I for one can't wait for novel #2 to make it's English debut.
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