Piercing -- Ryu Murakami, Paperback

A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller soon to be a major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska

*One of Literary Hub's Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)*

Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeds from him bed and watches over the baby's crib with an ice pick in his hand and an almost visceral desire to use it.

One night, as this struggle unfolds once more, Kawashima makes a decision to confront his demons and sets into motion an uncontrollable chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder. The follow-up to In the Miso Soup from a cult favorite writer, Piercing confirms Murakami as the master of the psycho thriller--terrifying, sickening, and utterly gripping

Author: Ryu Murakami
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.11w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780143038634
Age Range: 18-UP

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/19/2007 pg. 148
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2007 pg. 94
Library Journal 03/01/2007 pg. 76
Booklist 03/01/2007 pg. 64
New York Times 04/15/2007 pg. 14

About the Author
Ryu Murakami, musician, filmmaker, TV talk show host, and novelist, is the author of Almost Transparent Blue, 69, and Coin Locker Babies, which the Washington Post praised as a knockout . . . a great big pulsating parable.