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<p><P><b>A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of <i>In the Miso Soup</i></b> <P> A renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami&#151;a musician, filmmaker (<i>Tokyo Decadence</i>), TV personality, and award-winning author&#151;has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, <i>Almost Transparent Blue</i>, won Japan's most coveted literary prize and sold over a million copies, and his most recent psychosexual thriller, <i>In the Miso Soup</i>, gave readers a further taste of his incredibly agile imagination. In <i>Piercing</i>, Murakami, in his own unique style, explores themes of child abuse and what happens to the voiceless among us, weaving a disturbing, spare tale of two people who find each other and then are forced into hurting each other deeply because of the haunting specter of their own abuse as children.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>In this short, tense and brutally eloquent thriller from Japanese author Murakami (In the Miso Soup), Kawashima Masayuki, a young urban professional, faces the terrible fear he will stab his baby daughter, Rie, just as he once stabbed the stripper he lived with when he was 19. He decides killing a young p

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Author

Murakami, Ryu

Publisher

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429564823

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

3.59 / 5 (3,684 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14