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In this novel, natsuo kirino also deals with the lives of women in contemporary japanese society, here through the lens of a cutthroat competitive educational system, the q high school for young women. It was published in english in 2007, translated by rebecca copeland. Jul 05, 2017 grotesque, by natsuo kirino, author of out is structured as a series of firstperson narratives with changing narrators, some direct, others in the form of journal entries of the elaborated sort rarely found in real life. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers.
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