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. REAL WORLD: New Natsuo Kirino coming out in September 2008

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3297 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-02
• Original language: Japanese
• Binding: Paperback
• 388 pages

Review
Out is a terrifying delve into the human psyche and the hidden darkness that lies within. It takes you to the edge of the psychological border and then grabs you and throws you over. Four women work the same mundane graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory in downtown Tokyo. Sick of heavy debts, household chores and family problems, they all dream of a life away from it all. A young mother finally snaps and murders her gambling husband. Mosako and her co-workers agree to dismember and dispose of the body for her. However, they soon have more to fear than the police asking awkward questions. A ruthless nightclub owner has been falsely accused of the murder and he is out for revenge. Natsuo Kirino blends a lethal cocktail of feminism, desperation and bloody murder. She will leave you shaken to the bone and feeling like you've just survived an earthquake. (Kirkus UK)

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.'