Out by Natsuo Kirino Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Out
Book Review: noirish thriller with a unique setting
Summary: 4 Stars
Natsuo Kirino has been hailed as the `Queen of Japanese Crime'. Out, her first book to be translated into English, is the story of four women who work the night shift at a factory making boxed lunches. When the youngest and prettiest of them strangles her husband to death in a fit of rage, the women all rally around their friend. They decide to cut up the pieces of the dead body and dispose it off in bags around Tokyo. This sets up the scenes for a grisly and deeply disturbing tale that reveals the underbelly of Tokyo. Out is a harsh and gritty novel, as the graphic cover suggests.
Out has been made into a successful apanese film, and a hollywood version is to be directed by Nakato hideo, the original director of "The Ring"