Piercing

<B>A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of <I>In the Miso Soup</I></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.