# Piercing - Paperback

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by **Ryu Murakami** (Author)

****"Mr. Murakami's novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths."--_The New York Times_****

A 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.

### Author Biography

**Ryu Murakami** was born in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture, Ryu Murakamiis the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, a novel about a group of young people drowned in sex and drugs, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. His novels include _Coin Locker Babie_s, _Sixty-Nin_e, _Popular Hits of the Showa Era_, _Audition_, _In the Miso Soup_ and _From the Fatherland, with Love_. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include _Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of Yo_u.

**Ralph McCarthy** is a noted translator, whose translations include Ryu Murakami's _Audition, In the Miso Soup, Piercing, Sixty-Nine,_ and _From The Fatherland, With Love_.

**Number of Pages:** 192

**Dimensions:** 0.54 x 7.2 x 5.11 IN

**Publication Date:** April 01, 2007

## Details

- **Price:** 22.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Thrillers

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