Out -

Natsuo Kirino

Vintage

2004

528 páginas

17h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780099472285

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.

Resenhas (3)

4 (Muito bom)

Violência nada gratuita

Um livro eletrizante sobre mulheres que buscam uma saída do mundo machista e opressor à sua volta. Mas não tem chororô não, elas estão dispostas a sujar as mãos por sua liberdade numa história com descrições horripilantes de violência (sanguinária, sexual e por vezes as duas coisas juntas). Prende a atenção com uma protagonista intrigante e muita tensão.