By Ryu Murakami
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A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, writer of In the Miso Soup
A renaissance guy for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami—a musician, filmmaker (Tokyo Decadence), television character, and award-winning author—has won a cult following within the West. His first novel, Almost obvious Blue, received Japan’s such a lot coveted literary prize and offered over 1000000 copies, and his newest psychosexual mystery, In the Miso Soup, gave readers an additional flavor of his highly agile mind's eye. In Piercing, Murakami, in his personal distinct sort, explores issues of kid abuse and what occurs to the unvoiced between us, weaving a nerve-racking, spare story of 2 those that locate one another after which are pressured into hurting one another deeply as a result of the haunting specter in their personal abuse as young children.
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Come to think of it, somewhere along the line I became a man who never does anything people consider suspicious. Maybe something fundamental had changed since the old days - since parting with the stripper. He’d gone back to school, taken up drawing again, found a job and met Yoko, and he often felt as if he wasn’t even the same person he’d been as a teenager. But if he was someone different now, which of the two was the real him? They’re both the real you, some part of him whispered, but the rest of him wasn’t so sure.
The first scene of Basic Instinct was a jolt to his system, but by the time the ice pick reappeared later in the film he was thoroughly enjoying the story. In the next building past the video shop was a bookstore. Something moved in the gap between the two buildings, and he stopped to see what it was. The gap, just wide enough for a grown man to walk through, dead-ended at another building. It was very dark in there, but he was sure he’d seen two or three small figures moving. Small enough that they had to be children, no more than nine or ten years old.
When he presented the sketch to her on their next date, she invited him to her apartment for the first time. And there she made a halting and clearly painful confession. Until about a year before, she’d been dating an older man from her company, and on the day they broke up she’d swallowed a handful of sleeping pills and been rushed to the hospital. What did he think of a woman who’d do something like that? Kawashima said he didn’t think it was any big deal, and he meant it. ’ he said. Not long afterwards, they moved in together.
