Piercing
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Ryu Murakami
“Mr. Murakami’s novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths.”—The New York TimesA pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller, the basis of the major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska*One of Literary Hub's “Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)”* Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeds from him bed and watches over the baby’s crib with an ice pick in his hand and an almost visceral desire to use it. One night, as this struggle unfolds once more, Kawashima makes a decision to confront his demons and sets into motion an uncontrollable chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder. The follow-up to In the Miso Soup from a cult favorite writer, Piercing confirms Murakami as the master of the psycho thriller—terrifying, sickening, and utterly gripping.
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Author
Ryu Murakami
Pages
192
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2007-03-27
ISBN
1429552557 9781429552554
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"I am captivated by Murakami's writing style, I can't get enough of it. The subtle and beautiful ways he puts anecdotes into his stories that almost always resonant. The way he writes disturbing characters in such a devastating way, but characters that come off as incredibly realistic ceases to amaze me.
This story hit me like the others I've read by him with two MCs with beyond-troubled childhood trauma and what happens when their worlds collide. I read this in two days, and today I most certainly should have been doing homework instead of reading it. But it was begging to be read, and I couldn't help but answer the call.
I never feel like Murakami's prose is boring. Never am I not ready to turn the page and find out what happens next. He is supreme when it comes to character writing. I don't 100% understand the ending, I'll be honest. I tried to find people making references to it, but I couldn't.
This novel is extreme. But it's extreme in the way that the Arctic is beautiful. Cold, harsh, and dangerous yes. But all in a way that is hard to look away from without feelings of rapture.
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Cole Johnson