A 10 year old girl is kidnapped on her way home from ballet class. Her abductor makes no ransom demand; instead he keeps her prisoner above the factory where he works. Keiko Kitamura endures degradation and squalor but never gives up hope, and a year pass
From internationally bestselling crime writer Natsuo Kirino comes a mythical feminist noir about family secrets, broken loyalties, and the search from truth in a deceitful world.In a place like no other, on a mystical island in the shape of tear drop, two
A stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels Out and Grotesque.In a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer an
