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Title	:	Piercing
Author	:	Ryū Murakami
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	March 27th 2007 by Penguin Books (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Cultural. Japan. Thriller. Mystery

Piercing Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

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A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup A renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami—a musician, filmmaker (Tokyo Decadence), TV personality, and award-winning author—has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, won Japan’s most coveted literary prize and sold over a million copies, and his most recent psychosexual thriller, In the Miso Soup, gave readers a further taste of his incredibly agile imagination. In Piercing, 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.

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Original Title:	ピアッシング [Piasshingu] ISBN13 9780143038634
Edition Language:	English

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A father feels a nightly compulsion to stab his infant daughter with an ice pick. To avoid murdering his child, he tells his wife he's going on a business trip and decides to stab a prostitute instead. Are you still with me? Good.It turns out the prostitute is just as twisted and it sets up a very strange evening as the two psychos confront each other as well as the demons of their pasts. This is a short read with short chapters, until the prostitute shows up and in an appropriate move, the

my first encounter with the other murakami. for some reason i expected this guy to be a much slower, more cerebral, more "artistic" writer than haruki murakami (i guess because the japanese lit-folks seem to prefer him), but in actuality it turned out to be the opposite. this book makes the wind-up bird chronicle look like something a spinsterly schoolmarm might cook up over the course of eight or ten years of sunday afternoon tea. not to say i like this murakami better; based on this i'm still

One of the most delightfully fucked up books I have ever read is Piercing. Yet, despite its gruesome content (Psychopathic killer vs Schizophrenic Prostitute) there is a strange and beautiful philosophy delicately balanced between the two protagonists. I must say that the strangeness of the tale does have the unique flavoring of the Japanese, so those who are fond of Japanese writing will probably like this. However, for those of you who enjoy the neat, though often exciting bundles of Western

Pain is collaborative. It has to be both inflicted and acknowledged, or it doesn't count. Ryu Murakami, the "aging enfant terrible of Japan," is interested in both. His work is marked by graphic sex and shocking violence. For some reason I saw the movie adaptation of his Audition and I'm all set with piano wire now.Piano wire: it's not just for whatever it's supposed to be for!The thing with relationships is that they constitute an agreement to inflict your damage on each other, right? "I am

Piercing begins with a man standing over his infant daughter's crib, controlling an urge to stab her with an ice pick. He manages to calm down but decides to hire, torture, and murder a prostitute instead. The prostitute he hires turns out to be even more damaged than him and the story develops from here into a part (weird) romance, part psychological thriller exploring the psyche of two people running away from the demons of childhood abuse. A short and brilliant novel definitely worth reading.

so this book made me feel physically unwell. I think it was an excellent, well-written book, masterfully translated, but it was extremely painful and unpleasant to read. the two main characters have a lot of residual damage from childhood traumas that they never dealt with. it's a very visceral, intense and dark story. murakami's descriptions of violence and abuse are graphic and minutely detailed, but not without compassion. the characters are fully realized, and I think the characters'

This is a stunningly good book that mixes visceral and disturbing psychological landscapes with an extremely intelligent, almost farcical story structure. I have never read anything quite like it.The two main characters (and there really are only two characters in this rather short book) are both acutely damaged from childhood trauma and abuse. Each sees the world in an entirely different way, and each perceives the other's actions through a lens of their own psychological damage. This leads to