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Piercing

Ryū Murakami

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 creeps from his bed and watches over the baby's crib with an ice pick in his hand and an almost visceral desire to use it. One particular 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.

GenresJapanese fiction21st centuryTranslations into EnglishPsychopathsFictionTokyo (Japan)

185 pages, 9 editions

English edition · First published 2007 by Penguin Books · ISBN 9780143038634

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Editions

9 editions

English

  • Piercing · Penguin Books · 2007 · ISBN 9780143038634 · 1 reader This page
  • Piercing · Bloomsbury · 2008 · ISBN 9780747593133
  • Piercing · Penguin Books · 2007 · ISBN 9780747582205
  • Piercing · Penguin Books · 2007 · ISBN 9781408846285

Other (ce)

  • Piercing · Argo · 2012 · ISBN 9788025705797

Other (hu)

  • Piercing · Libri Könyvkiadó Kft. · 2014 · ISBN 9789633102466

Other (po)

  • Piercing · Tajfuny · 2021 · ISBN 9788395921629

Other (ro)

  • Piercing · Polirom · 2023 · ISBN 9789734694846
  • Piercing (Romanian Edition) · Editura Polirom · 2009 · ISBN 9789734614714

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