Piercing
Ryu Murakami
(Author)
Description
"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.
Product Details
Price
$15.00
$13.95
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publish Date
April 01, 2007
Pages
192
Dimensions
5.11 X 7.2 X 0.54 inches | 0.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780143038634
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About the Author
Ryu Murakami was born in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture, Ryu Murakamiis the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, a novel about a group of young people drowned in sex and drugs, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. His novels include Coin Locker Babies, Sixty-Nine, Popular Hits of the Showa Era, Audition, In the Miso Soup and From the Fatherland, with Love. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You. Ralph McCarthy is a noted translator, whose translations include Ryu Murakami's Audition, In the Miso Soup, Piercing, Sixty-Nine, and From The Fatherland, With Love.
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)
"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)
