![]() ![]() VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. 'Grimly satisfying - like no one you've ever read before' Kirkus Reviews An illustration of two cells of a film strip. ![]() 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. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions and more dangerous enemies begin to close in. At once a masterpiece of literary suspense and pitch-black comedy of gender warfare, Out is also a moving evocation of the pressures and prejudices that drive women to extreme deeds, and the friendships that bolster them in the aftermath. ![]() She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.Ī young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. ![]()
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