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Grotesque by natsuo kirino overdrive rakuten overdrive. Natsuo kirino, kirino natsuo born october 7, 1951, in kanazawa, ishikawa prefecture is the pen name of mariko hashioka, a japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of japanese detective fiction. Natsuo kirino, born in 1951, is the author of sixteen novels, four shortstory collections, and an essay collection. Natsuo kirino is currently considered a single author. The central motif of grotesque, like many of kirino s works, is that truth is subjective. At once a psychological investigation of the pressures facing japanese women and a classic work of noir fiction, grotesque is a brilliantly twisted novel of ambition, desire. Contributors are mainly an unnamed woman, plus her sister yuriko hirata and school friend kazue sato, the last two. Natsuo kirino is the pen name of mariko hashioka, born in 1951, a prolific c rime writer most fa mous for her 199 7 novel out, published in english translation in 2004.
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