Out

A Novel

by Natsuo Kirino

Paperback, 416 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2005 by Vintage.

ISBN:: 978-1-4000-7837-0

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.

6 editions

hexarchate@bookwyrm.social reviewed Out: A Novel by Natsuo Kirino

Review of 'Out' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

I could have liked it, but that ending was so baffling and terrible that the rest of the book can't make up for it.

bungakumi reviewed Out: A Novel by Natsuo Kirino

Review of 'Out' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

damn... what a ride

don't care about much so team masako all the way

Tecnijota

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Nov. 25, 2008

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Dec. 22, 2022

Subjects

Thrillers
Japanese (Language) Contemporary Fiction
Fiction
Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
Mystery & Detective - General
Fiction / Thrillers
Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Suspense
Detective and mystery stories
Japan
Social conditions
Tokyo (Japan)
Yakuza

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Asian Diasporic Novels