Grotesque
ISBN: | 9781400044948, 1400044944, 9781400096596, 1400096596 |
OCLC Number: | 70676629 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
Author: | Natsuo Kirino |
Translator: | Rebecca L. Copeland |
Language: | en |
Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, 2007; Vintage, 2008 |
Publication Place: | New York; New York |
Japanese Copyright Year: | 2003 |
English Publication Date: | 2006 |
Notes: | Japanese title: Gurotesuku. A Borzoi book. |
Abstract: | In the wake of the brutal murders of two Tokyo prostitutes, Yuriko and Kazue, Yuriko's older sister describes the three women's education at a prestigious girls' high school, where a strict societal conventions determine the courses of their lives. |
Subjects: | Japan, Social life and customs, Fiction Natsuo Kirino, Translations into English Prostitutes, Japan, Tokyo, Fiction Tokyo, Japan, Fiction |