A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller soon to be a major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska
*One ofLiterary 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 toIn the Miso Soupfrom a cult favorite writer,Piercingconfirms Murakami as the master of the psycho thriller—terrifying, sickening, and utterly gripping
Ryu Murakami, musician, filmmaker, TV talk show host, and novelist, is the author of
Almost Transparent Blue,
69, and
Coin Locker Babies, which the
Washington Postpraised as a knockout . . . a great big pulsating parable. US
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