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신주쿠 2초메, 서른 여덟 살의 무라노 미로 탐정. 사랑했던 남자를 자신의 손으로 감옥에 보내고 결국 그 남자가 감옥에서 자살한 후, 그녀는 삶의 의지를 잃어버렸다. 나이 마흔이면 죽겠다고 마음먹고 탐정 일도 그만 둔 미로는 인간관계를 정리하기 위해 의붓아버지 젠조를 죽이겠다고 결심한다.
오타루에 살고 있는 젠조를 찾아간 미로는 그에게 독한 말을 내뿜고, 결국 젠조는 심장마비로 쓰러지고 만다. 의붓아버지의 죽음에 연루된 미로는 위조 여권을 들고 부산으로 도망을 친다. 그런 그녀의 뒤를 게이 도모베와 의붓아버지의 정부였던 시각장애인 히사에, 젠조의 동료였던 야쿠자 데이가 쫓는다. 고립무원의 처지가 된 미로를 지키는 사람은 1980년 광주에서 끔찍한 살육의 현장과 직면한 한국인 서진호밖에 없다.
오타루에 살고 있는 젠조를 찾아간 미로는 그에게 독한 말을 내뿜고, 결국 젠조는 심장마비로 쓰러지고 만다. 의붓아버지의 죽음에 연루된 미로는 위조 여권을 들고 부산으로 도망을 친다. 그런 그녀의 뒤를 게이 도모베와 의붓아버지의 정부였던 시각장애인 히사에, 젠조의 동료였던 야쿠자 데이가 쫓는다. 고립무원의 처지가 된 미로를 지키는 사람은 1980년 광주에서 끔찍한 살육의 현장과 직면한 한국인 서진호밖에 없다.
552 pages, Paperback
First published October 29, 2002
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Natsuo Kirino
96 books2,805 followersNATSUO KIRINO (桐野夏生), born in 1951 in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) was an active and spirited child brought up between her two brothers, one being six years older and the other five years younger than her. Kirino's father, being an architect, took the family to many cities, and Kirino spent her youth in Sendai, Sapporo, and finally settled in Tokyo when she was fourteen, which is where she has been residing since. Kirino showed glimpses of her talent as a writer in her early stages—she was a child with great deal of curiosity, and also a child who could completely immerse herself in her own unique world of imagination.
After completing her law degree, Kirino worked in various fields before becoming a fictional writer; including scheduling and organizing films to be shown in a movie theater, and working as an editor and writer for a magazine publication. She got married to her present husband when she turned twenty-four, and began writing professionally, after giving birth to her daughter, at age thirty. However, it was not until Kirino was forty-one that she made her major debut. Since then, she has written thirteen full-length novels and three volumes of collective short stories, which are highly acclaimed for her intriguingly intelligent plot development and character portrayal, and her unique perspective of Japanese society after the collapse of the economic bubble.
Today, Kirino continues to enthusiastically write in a range of interesting genres. Her smash hit novel OUT (Kodansha, 1997) became the first work to be translated into English and other languages. OUT was also nominated for the 2004 MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Novel Category, which made Kirino the first Japanese writer to be nominated for this major literary award. Her other works are now under way to be translated and published around the world.
After completing her law degree, Kirino worked in various fields before becoming a fictional writer; including scheduling and organizing films to be shown in a movie theater, and working as an editor and writer for a magazine publication. She got married to her present husband when she turned twenty-four, and began writing professionally, after giving birth to her daughter, at age thirty. However, it was not until Kirino was forty-one that she made her major debut. Since then, she has written thirteen full-length novels and three volumes of collective short stories, which are highly acclaimed for her intriguingly intelligent plot development and character portrayal, and her unique perspective of Japanese society after the collapse of the economic bubble.
Today, Kirino continues to enthusiastically write in a range of interesting genres. Her smash hit novel OUT (Kodansha, 1997) became the first work to be translated into English and other languages. OUT was also nominated for the 2004 MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Novel Category, which made Kirino the first Japanese writer to be nominated for this major literary award. Her other works are now under way to be translated and published around the world.
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