Today, Kirino continues to enthusiastically write in a range of interesting genres. Since then, she has written thirteen full-length novels and three volumes of collective short stories, which are highly acclaimed for her intriguingly intelligent plot development and character portrayal, and her unique perspective of Japanese society after the collapse of the economic bubble. However, it was not until Kirino was forty-one that she made her major debut.
She got married to her present husband when she turned twenty-four, and began writing professionally, after giving birth to her daughter, at age thirty. Kirino showed glimpses of her talent as a writer in her early stages-she was a child with great deal of curiosity, and also a child who could completely immerse herself in her own unique world of imagination.Īfter completing her law degree, Kirino worked in various fields before becoming a fictional writer including scheduling and organizing films to be shown in a movie theater, and working as an editor and writer for a magazine publication. Kirino's father, being an architect, took the family to many cities, and Kirino spent her youth in Sendai, Sapporo, and finally settled in Tokyo when she was fourteen, which is where she has been residing since. NATSUO KIRINO ( 桐野夏生), born in 1951 in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) was an active and spirited child brought up between her two brothers, one being six years older and the other five years younger than her. Kirino has mastered a Thelma and Louise kind of graveyard humor that illuminates her stunning evocation of the pressures and prejudices that drive women to extreme deeds and the friendship that bolsters them in the aftermath. The complex yet riveting narrative seamlessly combines a convincing glimpse into the grimy world of Japan's yakuza with a brilliant portrayal of the psychology of a violent crime and the ensuing game of cat-and-mouse between seasoned detectives and a group of determined but inexperienced criminals. Masako's own search for a way out of the straitjacket of a dead-end life leads her, too, to take drastic action. The ringleader of this cover-up, Masako Katori, emerges as the emotional heart of Out and as one of the shrewdest, most clear-eyed creations in recent fiction.
Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime.
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