PIERCING

Murakami, Ryu ( Ralph McCarthy)

ISBN 10: 0747582203 / ISBN 13: 9780747582205

Published by Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom, 2007

About this Item

First UK Edition, First Printing. This is the true first edition, first printing (first impression) with a full number line to the copyright page as called for in a near fine jacket which is not price clipped. Near fine to fine unread and unmarked. Translated by Ralph McCarthy.

Seller Inventory # 013673

Bibliographic Details

• Title: PIERCING
• Publisher: Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747582203
• ISBN 13: 9780747582205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crime

About this title

Synopsis

*One of Literary Hub's "Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)"*

A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup

A renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami—a musician, filmmaker (Tokyo Decadence), TV personality, and award-winning author—has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, won Japan’s most coveted literary prize and sold over a million copies, and his most recent psychosexual thriller, In the Miso Soup, gave readers a further taste of his incredibly agile imagination. In Piercing, Murakami, in his own unique style, explores themes of child abuse and what happens to the voiceless among us, weaving a disturbing, spare tale of two people who find each other and then are forced into hurting each other deeply because of the haunting specter of their own abuse as children.

About the Author

Ryu Murakami, musician, filmmaker, TV talk show host, and novelist, is the author of Almost Transparent Blue, 69, and Coin Locker Babies, which the Washington Post praised as "a knockout . . . a great big pulsating parable."