by Natsuo Kirino · Emecé Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496580299
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«Out» is the crime novel by Natsuo Kirino, published by Emecé Editores in paperback (560 pages, in Spanish).
Four women working night shifts at a prepared-food factory in the suburbs of Tokyo, burdened by debts and hostile families, are dragged into a crime and disposing of the corpse. A loan shark linked to the yakuza blackmails them into continuing, while the police begin to suspect.
Novel winner of the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1998 and nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2004. Originally published in 1997.
Recommended for readers of crime fiction and thrillers seeking a hard-hitting story with female protagonists and social critique.
Natsuo Kirino is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.
