Natsuo Kirino

Real world

In a place like no other, on an island in the shape of a tear drop, two sisters are born into a family of the oracle. Kamikuu, with creamy skin and almond eyes, is admired far and wide; Namima, small but headstrong, learns to live in her sister's shadow.

The Goddess Chronicle

In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the neighbour's son and a high school misfit. But when he disappears (taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him) the four girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them.

Real World

Le quattro casalinghe di Tokyo

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. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband then confesses her crime to Masako, the closest of her colleagues. For reasons of her own, Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the body. The body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions, but the women have far more dangerous enemies -a yakuza connected loan shark who discovers their secret and has a business proposition, and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder. He has lost everything as a result of their crime and he is out for revenge. OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.

In the wake of the murders of two Tokyo prostitutes, Yuriko and Kazue, Yuriko's sister describes the three women's education at a prestigious girls' school, where strict societal conventions determine the courses of their lives.

Grotesque

Constituant le nord de l'archipel du Japon, Hokkaïdo est une région inhospitalière de montagnes rudes et de mer grise. A dix-huit ans, Kasumi est montée dans un bus et a fui la maison familiale pour tenter sa chance à Tokyo, sans jamais revoir ses parents. Après quinze ans d'absence, elle revient pour quelques jours dans sa région natale, sur l'invitation d'un couple d'amis, les Ishiyama, accompagnée de son mari et de ses deux filles. Mais un beau matin, la petite Yuka, cinq ans, disparaît sans laisser de traces. Toutes les recherches resteront vaines. La fillette a-t-elle fugué, comme sa mère des années plus tôt ? A-t-elle été victime d'un accident ou d'un crime odieux ? Mais lequel des parents ou des voisins aurait pu commettre un tel acte ? Kasumi est rongée par la culpabilité, car ce séjour n'était en réalité qu'un prétexte pour voir Yohei Ishiyama, l'ami du couple, qui est aussi son amant. Alors commence pour Kasumi une lente dérive, une enquête désespérée à la recherche de sa fille disparue, au cours de laquelle elle recevra l'aide inattendue d'Utsumi, un ancien inspecteur de police condamné par un cancer de l'estomac. Ces deux personnages, comme arrachés à la vie par leur tragédie respective, vont s'enfoncer comme des fantômes dans les matins brumeux de Hokkaïdo...

roman

Disparitions

Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward Kazue Sato floats around among them, trying to fit in.Years later, Yuriko and Kazue are dead — both have become prostitutes and both have been brutally murdered. Natsuo Kirino, celebrated author of Out, seamlessly weaves together the stories of these women’s struggles within the conventions and restrictions of Japanese society. 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, beauty, cruelty, and identity by one of our most electrifying writers.

R is the other woman. Labelled simply with one initial, her identity in the famous 1940s novel that recounts the damage she did to her lover's family remains shrouded in mystery. The novelist who had an illicit relationship with her, and then used her as material for his work, became a celebrated writer. But R never had the chance to give her side of the story. Tamaki is determined to find out who R really was. A writer herself, she is working on a book about R and begins to uncover clues about the real story behind the novel - and the great tragedy of the novelist's life. While she throws herself into her research she's aware that her own imperfect relationships are also up for scrutiny. Her ex-lover, Seiji, is gravely ill in hospital and her reminiscences about their long affair strike echoes with the subject of her work. In this compelling and illuminating novel, prize-winning author, Natsuo Kirino explores the themes of love and death, and the significance of fiction.

Numa misteriosa e lendária ilha com o formato de uma lágrima, duas irmãs nascem no seio de uma família de oráculos. Kamiku é admirada por sua beleza incomum, e por isso Namina passa a viver sob a sombra da irmã. Em O conto da deusa, a aclamada escritora japonesa Natsuo Kirino reimagina a criação do Japão em uma trágica história de amor e vingança. Kamiku é escolhida para se tornar o próximo oráculo e servir o reino da luz, enquanto Namina é obrigada a servir o reino das sombras e guiar eternamente os espíritos ao mundo subterrâneo, onde encontra a deusa Izanami. Namina, cujo nome siginifica "mulher em meio às ondas", viaja entre o mundo dos vivos e dos mortos, buscando vingança. No cerne desta sombria história, Kirino reinventa o antigo mito da criação de Izanami e Izanagi, personagens da mitologia japonesa. Como a deusa, Namina é consumida pela raiva e, incapaz de esquecer sua antiga vida, quer entender por que foi banida do mundo dos vivos. O ódio amargurado dessas duas mulheres impregna a narrativa, numa estrutura que remete às obras mais recentes da romancista, onde a mulher é sempre alvo de traições. Namina age contrariamente ao que sua família e comunidade esperam dela. O seu próposito post mortem passa a ser a busca por justiça, não contra o assassino que lhe tirou a vida, mas contra o mundo que a subjugava. A mitologia japonesa tem uma densidade que impressiona. Por séculos, a vida de muitos deuses e deusas fora intimamente ligada à vida do povo japonês, controlando cada fase de seu destino. Nessa crônica atemporal, as tensões e conflitos são construídos para evidenciar uma realidade em que o abismo entre o homem e a mulher é muito maior do que aquele que separa humanos e deuses.

O conto da deusa

Grotescas

Çıkış

Morbide guance

Tanrica Günlügü

Niran Elçi

Grotesk

Roberto Wander Nóbrega

De meia-noite às cinco e meia, sem intervalo, Yayoi, Masako, Yoshie, Kuniko e seus colegas permanecem ao lado da esteira transportadora, embalando quentinhas. Apesar de oferecer bom salário para meio-expediente, o serviço na fábrica de refeições de comida pronta é desgastante. Entre o trabalho mecânico da madrugada e os afazeres domésticos da manhã seguinte, as quatro operárias japonesas viveriam o repetitivo e extenuante cotidiano da mulher contemporânea até que um trágico assassinato mudasse suas vidas para sempre.

Natsuo Kirino

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