Product Description

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.

A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband, then confesses her crime to Masako, the closest of her colleagues. For reasons of her own, Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the body. The body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions, but the women have far more dangerous enemies -a yakuza connected loan shark who discovers their secret and has a business proposition, and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder. He has lost everything as a result of their crime and he is out for revenge.

OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1546 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-02
• Binding: Paperback
• 388 pages

Los Angeles Times
'Daring and disturbing, OUT is prepared to push the human limits of this world… Remarkable'

New York Times Book Review
'OUT is a potent cocktail of urban blight, perverse feminism and vigilante justice.'

USA today
'No gritty urban American tale of violence can match the horror of OUT.'

Customer Reviews

Out
Out is a really good read. I picked it up on a special offer and didn't get around to reading it for quite a while, but once I did I was hooked. Natsuo Kirino has a real knack for making you turn the page. I'd be interested to see more books by this author.

Good read, disappointing ending
If you enjoy japanese fiction or crime novels you'll enjoy this. It has a very good plot and good characters. Don't be put off by the names, you get used to them surprisingly quickly. I enjoyed the book thoroughly, but thought the ending was a bit weak.

Amazing
This a really good book where the author has created interesting and complex charachters. The plot is original, and the authers style is unique. highly reccommended