by NatsuoKirino (Author)
Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo. Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them. But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 0099488930
ISBN 13: 9780099488934
Book Overview: An unconvential and unique crime thriller with an outrageous, unattractive, anarchic narrator showing a new darker side to the lives of women in Japan.