Kirino

Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Kathryn Harrison explores Natsuo Kirino’s "disquieting and suspenseful" novel Real World in this edition of the New York Times Sunday Book Review. "From a writer who has declared Flannery O’Connor her favorite American author — one of the few whose obsessive focus on violence, epiphany and redemption equals Dostoyevsky’s — readers can expect a tour through the grotesque and the extreme," Harrison writes of Kirino and her new work.
Read the Review >> "Killer Children"

Kathryn Harrison, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is the bestselling author of the memoir The Kiss. Her most recent book is While They Slept: An Inquiry In to the Murder of a Family. Read the NYT Review of Harrison's While They Slept here >> "Speaking the Unspeakable"

Natsuo Kirino is a Japanese novelist most famous for her 1997 novel, Out, which received the Grand Prix for Crime Fiction, Japan's top mystery award, and was a finalist (in English translation) for the 2004 Edgar Award. Real World and What Remains are her two latest novels translated into English.