Jeff wrote about Natsuo Kirino's OUT:
Very hardboiled, Miker. Excellent book but grim is the word.
Reminded me for some reason, at least at the beginning, of a
book by George Gissing I had to read in college. Hopeless
people in a horrible environment. Still it kept me reading
and I was very impressed. Excellent translation too, at least
it was very readable.
************** Glad you liked it, Jeff! Didn't take you long
to get through it. I'm trying to write a review of it. I'm
slowly sifting my way through Amazon looking for more
hardboiled/noir candidates from Japan. Looks like a lot of
Japanese mysteries are not hardboiled (not a surprise,
really) and others tread a post-modern trail, which I am
usually clueless to figure out.
miker
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