Their unlikely strategy, whose every banal discussion and grisly procedure is presented in pitiless detail, doesn’t entirely succeed in fooling the police. Soon all four friends know about the murder, and they all band together to conceal it from the authorities. One night one of the team strangles her abusive husband and, remorseless but fearful of exposure, calls on Masako for help. Night after night they take turns dishing rice into containers, smoothing it out, placing pieces of meat or fish on top, and covering it with sauce before returning home in dull despair to their tiny apartments, indifferent mates, unresponsive children, and mounting debts. Masako Katori works with three friends making box lunches on a night-shift assembly line. Horrifying violence lurks a hairsbreadth beneath the surface of drab modern Tokyo in veteran Kirino’s award-winning English-language debut.
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