Piercing Paperback - 2007
by Ryu Murakami
A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup
A renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami a musician, filmmaker (Tokyo Decadence), TV personality, and award-winning author has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, won Japan's 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.
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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.
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- Title Piercing
- Author Ryu Murakami
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Advance Review C
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, N.Y
- Date 2007-04-01
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780143038634 / 014303863X
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.2 x 5.11 x 0.54 in (18.29 x 12.98 x 1.37 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1000
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Psychopaths
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006052702
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/01/2007, Page 64
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2007, Page 94
- Library Journal, 03/01/2007, Page 76
- New York Times, 04/15/2007, Page 14
- Publishers Weekly, 02/19/2007, Page 148
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