> "Vicki Hendricks's Iguana Love is outstanding, as is
Natsuo Kirino's
> Out."
>
> I agree with those endorsements.
>
> Out got huge write-ups when it came out, deservedly
so. However, that
> was years ago. No other Kirino books (from what I
understand, she's
> pretty prolific in Japanese) have been translated.
Did Out not sell
> well enough to warrant others?
>
> Mark
Amazon lists--
Grotesque by Kirino & Copeland Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Knopf (March 13, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10:
1400044944 ISBN-13: 978-1400044948
Disparitions by Kirino and Chupin Paperback Publisher:
Editions du Rocher (May 27, 2002) ISBN-10: 2268042618
ISBN-13: 978-2268042619
(This may actually be in French...)
Don't forget too, good translations take time to do. And
Japanese, like English, is one of those idiom-filled
languages with a lot of subtle nuances.
Best, MEH
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