#natsuo kirino

[melonreads]

here’s the whole book haul <3 im excited to dig in

i think translated fiction is def my fave thing

[imperfectdiary]

Natsuo Kirino Out 1997

[sasomienspegel]

A spirit [...] is a black form, painted with hatred, tinged with pain, with a face disfigured by misfortune and resentment. And that's why it remains.

— Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Out

By Natsuo Kirino.

[moonlightfilly]

whoever decided that 2 books from Natsuo Kirino will be 195mm tall and then the matching 3rd one will, for some reason, be 190mm…. you're bad at your job and you should feel bad.

[pacifymebby]

Can't believe the book i started reading because i wanted to read something that would disturb me out of my depression, that I found by searching for "most disturbing books" was actually really fucking disturbing. Shocked and appalled but also completely in awe

[lunamarish]

Ecco che cos’era la morte: un vuoto immenso, infinito. Come il cielo buio che si estendeva a perdita d’occhio fuori da quella stanza. In che modo avrebbe vissuto la nuova realtà in cui Seiji non c’era più? Aveva cercato di prepararsi, era convinta di essere pronta ad affrontare la sua assenza, ma non aveva capito niente.

[…]

La morte – pensò ancora una volta Tamaki – è un grande vuoto che recide ogni legame. Quelli che restano non possono fare altro che continuare a stringere in mano un filo il cui capo opposto pende pietosamente.

Natsuo Kirino

[princessofmistake]

Ecco che cos’era la morte: un vuoto immenso, infinito. Come il cielo buio che si estendeva a perdita d’occhio fuori da quella stanza. In che modo avrebbe vissuto la nuova realtà in cui Seiji non c’era più? Aveva cercato di prepararsi, era convinta di essere pronta ad affrontare la sua assenza, ma non aveva capito niente. […] La morte – pensò ancora una volta Tamaki – è un grande vuoto che recide ogni legame. Quelli che restano non possono fare altro che continuare a stringere in mano un filo il cui capo opposto pende pietosamente.

[womancorpse]

“Almost unconsciously, she held on to old sorrows, playing the role of a pretty woman at the mercy of cluttered and volatile feelings.”

Natsuo Kirino, Out

[quotation--marks]

He had set himself two tasks - or three, to be more exact. The first was to work in the factory for two years and save enough money to buy a car; the second was to get Masako's complete forgiveness; and the third was to learn enough Japanese to be able to do so. By this time, it looked as though the only one he would accomplish was the third. He had made a good deal of progress with the language, but the person he was learning it for had refused to talk to him since that morning. It seemed he wasn't even going to get a chance to try to convince her. But then again, there was probably no such thing as complete forgiveness - at least not the kind he was looking for, the kind that would allow Masako to fall in love with him. And once this had sunk in, his resolve for the first task began to waver as well. In the end, his trials with Masako had been the hardest ones...but they weren't really trials or tasks or tests at all: they were just facts that he could no nothing about. And that in itself was probably the real test: his ability to accept something that was completely beyond his control. It made him want to cry.

Natsuo Kirino, Out (trans. Stephen Snyder)

[wachendlichaufmaria]

rebirth

[travelingviabooks]

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino (DNF)

Genre: Fiction, Crime, Mystery

Country: Japan

Review:

Not a bad book, but also not good enough for me to feel like I want to read another 405 pages.

Would I recommend this book?: Probably not.

[penrose-quinn]

I was expecting something similar to Perfect Blue when I watched Mask Girl because I only saw the teaser and not the trailer, but god, I love that it was so much more than that as the story went on 🖤

[hijolehijola]

Alrighty I read it. Severely fucked up first of all but was captivating until the end. I wish Yoshie nothing but happiness tbh. Definitely not a Tumblr friendly read but I can see how this book stood out among others in Japan in the 90s. Very good story-telling. All my coworkers who saw me reading it said "isn't that the one about the wife who chopped her husband to bits" 👍🏻

I think people on goodreads were expecting Out to be a novel about women supporting women.

[saaraofthesand]

maybe the port mafia’s doctor isn’t the best math tutor…

Wahhhhh it’s literally my 21st birthday today and this is the best present <3 <3 thank you beloved mutual