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A Novel

Paperback, 416 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2005 by Vintage.

ISBN:
978-1-4000-7837-0
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4 stars (1 review)

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.

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Four women getting dragged into the deadly criminal scene of Tokyo

4 stars

The author did a great job at bringing this grim atmosphere to live. We follow four women trying to get by with a bad paying job in the night shift of a factory. All of them have their respective problems but one day one of the women drastically changes that.

For anyone wanting to read an atmospheric crime story set in '90s Tokyo should pick this up. We get a look at the less favourable sides of this city and its' citizens.

Subjects

  • Thrillers
  • Japanese (Language) Contemporary Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Mystery & Detective - General
  • Fiction / Thrillers
  • Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
  • Suspense
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Japan
  • Social conditions
  • Tokyo (Japan)
  • Yakuza

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