Grotesque (Signed First Edition)

Natsuo Kirino

ISBN 10: 1400044944 / ISBN 13: 9781400044948

Published by Knopf, New York,, 2007

About this Item

Knopf, New York, 2007. First American edition. First printing. Hardbound. Signed by author in Japanese on title page. A mint unread copy, pristine in all respects, comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Smoke free. Shipped in well-padded box. The author also stamped her personal chop (in red) on title page. And her signature is a work of art in itself. A beautiful intricate signature! Kirino is recipient of at least six of Japan's premier literary awards, including the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for OUT, her first novel to be translated into English, the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature for GROTESQUE, and the Naoki Prize for SOFT CHEEKS. OUT, the first of her novels to appear in English, was nominated for an Edgar Award. GROTESQUE is her second novel published in the U.S. She lives in Tokyo and signed copies are difficult to come by.

Seller Inventory # mfm0107-5

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grotesque (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York,
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400044944
• ISBN 13: 9781400044948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Japanese Literature

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Synopsis

Natsuo Kirino made a spectacular fiction debut on these shores with the publication of Edgar Award-nominated Out (“Daring and disturbing . . . Prepared to push the limits of this world . . . Remarkable”—Los Angeles Times). Unanimously lauded for her unique, psychologically complex, darkly compelling vision and voice, she garnered a multitude of enthusiastic fans eager for more.
In her riveting new novel Grotesque, Kirino once again depicts a barely known Japan. This is the story of three Japanese women and the interconnectedness of beauty and cruelty, sex and violence, ugliness and ambition in their lives.
Tokyo prostitutes Yuriko and Kazue have been brutally murdered, their deaths leaving a wake of unanswered questions about who they were, who their murderer is, and how their lives came to this end. As their stories unfurl in an ingeniously layered narrative, coolly mediated by Yuriko’s older sister, we are taken back to their time in a prestigious girls’ high school—where a strict social hierarchy decided their fates—and follow them through the years as they struggle against rigid societal conventions.
Shedding light on the most hidden precincts of Japanese society today, Grotesque is both a psychological investigation into the female psyche and a classic work of noir fiction. It is a stunning novel, a book that confirms Natsuo Kirino’s electrifying gifts.

About the Author

Natsuo Kirino, born in 1951, is the author of sixteen novels, four short-story collections, and an essay collection. She is the recipient of six of Japan’s premier literary awards, including the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Out, the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature for Grotesque, and the Naoki Prize for Soft Cheeks. Her work has been published in nineteen languages worldwide; several of her books have also been turned into movies. Out was the first of her novels to appear in English and was nominated for an Edgar Award. She lives in Tokyo.