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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-10014303863X

ISBN-139780143038634

eBay Product ID (ePID)14038254318

Product Key Features

Book TitlePiercing

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Thrillers / Psychological, Thrillers / General, Literary

Publication Year2007

GenreFiction

AuthorRyu Murakami

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight4.8 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-052702

Reviews"...short, tense and brutally eloquent" -- Publishers Weekly "The latest postcard from the edge by noir-ish Japanese novelist and filmmaker Murakami." -- Kirkus Reviews "Piercing is a Japanese extension of (David) Lynch's world." -- Chris Petit, Guardian "I read the whole book with my shoulders pressing into my ears, if that tells you anything." -- Emily Temple, LitHub *10 Works of Literary Horror You Should Read(Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror* "Equally compelling and disturbing ... Piercing is an even darker psycho-thriller" -- Daily Mail (London) "If Ryu Murakami's short novel were a film it would be a nasty but effective B-movie chiller ... Written in a faintly ironic style reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis, Piercing is queasily compulsive ... the plot delivers its shocks efficiently." -- Financial Times " There are echoes here of Edgar Allan Poe and Dostoevsky - Murakami shares their fascination with the darkest layer of the soul, and the appalling isolation of the criminal. Creepy and gripping." -- The Times (London), "The latest postcard from the edge by noir-ish Japanese novelist and filmmaker Murakami." -- Kirkus Reviews "Piercing is a Japanese extension of (David) Lynch's world." -- Chris Petit, Guardian "I read the whole book with my shoulders pressing into my ears, if that tells you anything." -- Emily Temple, LitHub *10 Works of Literary Horror You Should Read(Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror* "Equally compelling and disturbing ... Piercing is an even darker psycho-thriller" -- Daily Mail (London) "If Ryu Murakami's short novel were a film it would be a nasty but effective B-movie chiller ... Written in a faintly ironic style reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis, Piercing is queasily compulsive ... the plot delivers its shocks efficiently." -- Financial Times " There are echoes here of Edgar Allan Poe and Dostoevsky - Murakami shares their fascination with the darkest layer of the soul, and the appalling isolation of the criminal. Creepy and gripping." -- The Times (London)

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal895.6/35

Synopsis"Mr. Murakami's novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths."-- The New York Times A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller, the basis of the major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska *One of Literary Hub 's "Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)"* Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeds from him bed and watches over the baby's crib with an ice pick in his hand and an almost visceral desire to use it. One night, as this struggle unfolds once more, Kawashima makes a decision to confront his demons and sets into motion an uncontrollable chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder. The follow-up to In the Miso Soup from a cult favorite writer, Piercing confirms Murakami as the master of the psycho thriller--terrifying, sickening, and utterly gripping., "Mr. Murakami's novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths."-- The New York Times A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller, the basis of the major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska *One of Literary Hub 's " Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror) " * Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeds from him bed and watches over the baby's crib with an ice pick in his hand and an almost visceral desire to use it. One night, as this struggle unfolds once more, Kawashima makes a decision to confront his demons and sets into motion an uncontrollable chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder. The follow-up to In the Miso Soup from a cult favorite writer, Piercing confirms Murakami as the master of the psycho thriller--terrifying, sickening, and utterly gripping., A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of "In the Miso Soup" A renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakamia musician, filmmaker ("Tokyo Decadence"), TV personality, and award-winning authorhas gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, "Almost Transparent Blue", won Japans most coveted literary prize and sold over a million copies, and his most recent psychosexual thriller, "In the Miso Soup", gave readers a further taste of his incredibly agile imagination. In "Piercing", Murakami, in his own unique style, explores themes of child abuse and what happens to the voiceless among us, weaving a disturbing, spare tale of two people who find each other and then are forced into hurting each other deeply because of the haunting specter of their own abuse as children., A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller soon to be a major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska *One of Literary Hub 's "Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)"* Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeds from him bed and watches over the baby's crib with an ice pick in his hand and an almost visceral desire to use it. One night, as this struggle unfolds once more, Kawashima makes a decision to confront his demons and sets into motion an uncontrollable chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder. The follow-up to In the Miso Soup from a cult favorite writer, Piercing confirms Murakami as the master of the psycho thriller--terrifying, sickening, and utterly gripping

LC Classification NumberPL856.U696P5313 2007