![]() ![]() Her crime novels go beyond the traditional as she scrutinizes society's ills and contemporary social issues weaving everything together into an often disturbing portrait of modern Japan. Natsuo Kirino is a highly regarded author in Japan best known in the English-speaking world for her boundary-pushing crime novels ( Out, Grotesque and Real World), which have been nominated for and have won various awards. Although I'm not entirely sure what I think of it, I enjoyed dipping my feet back into this literary form and am looking forward to working my way through the rest of the stories in the collections I recently received. Natsuo Kirino's "The Floating Forest" from Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs is the first short story I've read all year. ![]() Alternative History/Dystopian Fiction (7). ![]()
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