Piercing

Piercing

<b><b>A pulsating psycho-thriller soon to be a major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska</b><br><br>*One of <i>Literary Hub</i>'s "Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)"*<br><br></b><p>A renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami—a musician, filmmaker (<i>Tokyo Decadence</i>), TV personality, and award-winning author—has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, <i>Almost Transparent Blue</i>, won Japan’s most coveted literary prize and sold over a million copies, and his most recent psychosexual thriller, <i>In the Miso Soup</i>, gave readers a further taste of his incredibly agile imagination. In <i>Piercing</i>, 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.<br><br></p>