Natsuo kirino wikipedia

2003 novel by Natsuo Kirino

For the 1989 novel by Patrick McGrath, see The Grotesque (novel).

Grotesque is a 2003 crime novel by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino, most famous for her novel Out.

It was published in English in 2007, translated by Rebecca Copeland. Publisher Knopf censored the American translation, removing a section involving underage male prostitution, as it was considered too taboo for U. S. audiences.^[1]

Plot summary

The book is written in the first person for all parts and follows a woman whose sister and old school friend have been murdered.

Natsuo kirino out

The narrator of Grotesque is unnamed and forever lives under the shadow of her younger-by-a-year sister Yuriko, who is unimaginably beautiful and the center of all attention. The narrator hates her younger sister Yuriko because she was always looked down when being compared with Yuriko.

While the narrator is smart, responsible and plain looking, Yuriko is strikingly beautiful but fl