Out: Natsuo Kirino

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Rebecca L. Copeland, "Woman Uncovered: Pornography and Power in the Detective Fiction of Kirino Natsuo", Japan Forum 16/2 (2004): 249–69. Natsuo Kirino is the author of more than forty books. In addition to winning the Grand Prix for Crime Fiction for Out, she received one of Japan’s highest literary awards, the Naoki Prize, for Soft Cheeks. Several of her books have been made into popular movies in Japan. Out is the first of her novels to appear in English. Suggested Reading The novel tells the tales of four women, working the graveyard shift at a Japanese bento factory. All four women live hard lives. Masako, the leader of the four women, feels completely alienated from her estranged husband and teenage son. Como digo, los personajes son espectaculares, pero sobre todo Masako. Es de esos personajes femeninos tremendamente poderosos que se van a quedar conmigo para siempre.

In spite of writing in stories in the genre, Kirino does not particularly like mysteries. For influential books from her childhood, Kirino cites Two Years' Vacation, The Three Musketeers, and Little Women as favorites. [1] Tokyo Island (original title: Tōkyō-jima), trans. Philip Gabriel ( Granta, No.110, 2010 Spring, p.31-50) The Goddess Chronicle (original title: Joshinki), trans. Rebecca Copeland (Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2013)

Finally, a masterpiece in this genre . . . . a novel that realistically shows how ordinary people can be drawn into committing brutal crimes.”— Prize Jury, Mystery Writers of Japan Four Japanese women - Masako, Yayoi, Yoshie and Kuniko - work the night shift together at a factory making boxed lunches. Yayoi's husband, Yamamoto, is drunk and violent, and obsessed with an escort girl named Anna, who works at a club run by psychopathic gangster Satake. Yamamoto has also lost all the couple's savings playing baccarat at Satake's club. One night Satake beats Yamamoto up and throws him out. When Yamamoto gets home, his wife strangles him with his own belt. She confides in her friends, and they, led by Masako, agree to take Yamamoto's body, cut it up and dispose of it in garbage bags dispersed around Tokyo. It turns out that he was a pervert but not the pervert. That storyline was completely dropped, we end up having no clue who he was or where he went, so in the end Kazuo ends up being the one parking lot pervert anyway.)

Mina Qiao, Women in the Maze – Space and Gender in Kirino Natsuo's Writings. Münchner Schriftenreihe Japanforschung. Projekt Verlag. 2019. Auto (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1997); English translation by Stephen Snyder as Out (New York: Kodansha, 2003; New York: Vintage, 2005) a b Copeland, Rebecca (2004). "Woman Uncovered: Pornography and Power in the Detective Fiction of Kirino Natsuo". Japan Forum. 16 (2): 249–69. doi: 10.1080/0955580042000222673. No siempre la literatura japonesa actual es una delicada trama de sentimientos, llena de silencios y metáforas sutiles, y la prueba es este incalificable thriller? que nos sacude todos los esquemas. Scarily omniscient. . . . Like Walter Mosley, [Kirino] exploits the beat-down potential of the hard-boiled novel to depict life on society’s bottom in ways that subtly read as one part social protest, one part sadomasochistic entertainment.” –The Village Voice

Brings the mystery thriller to new levels of intensity and realism. . . . Out has great plot twists, vigor, and an ending that would make Hannibal Lecter smile.”– Library Journal (starred review) Fino a un certo punto è un romanzo notevolissimo che descrive con tanta minuziosa esattezza la condizione di malessere, al limite della negazione di sé, di certe donne da farti trovare perfettamente naturale che si associno in un atto che normalmente troveresti orrendo. Este inquietante thriller se va a centrar en la vida de cuatro compañeras de trabajo. Este trabajo no es otro que el turno de noche en una fábrica de comida envasada. En primer lugar, nos encontramos con Masako, gran protagonista de la novela, mujer fuerte, atrapada en un matrimonio aburrido, donde cada uno vive por su cuenta, y con un hijo adolescente, que la ignora y se niega a hablar. En segundo lugar, nos encontrarmos con Yoshie, viuda a cargo de una hija y su suegra, ambas dos tremendamente egoístas con ella. En siguiente lugar, nos encontramos con Kuniko, la cual vive con su novio, aunque no están en su mejor momento. Vive ahogada en deudas a causa de la compras compulsivas que hace, con el único objetivo de aparentar otro nivel social. Por último, tenemos a Yayoi, joven mujer con dos hijos pequeños, casada con un hombres que la maltrata. The group all work the nightshift at a bentō lunch factory, standing on the production line for several hours at a time, doing mindless tasks over and over. Themes a b c d Poole, Stephen (26 November 2004). "Murder Sushi Wrote". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 December 2013.