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Grotesque (novel), the Glossary

Grotesque is a 2003 crime novel by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino, most famous for her novel Out.^[1]

Bungeishunjū

is a Japanese publishing company known for its leading monthly magazine Bungeishunjū.

Compact Disc Digital Audio

Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA or CD-DA), also known as Digital Audio Compact Disc or simply as Audio CD, is the standard format for audio compact discs.

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Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Hardcover

A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Harvill Secker

Harvill Secker is a British publishing company formed in 2005 from the merger of Secker & Warburg and the Harvill Press.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Male prostitution

Male prostitution is a form of sex work consisting of act or practice of men providing sexual services in return for payment.

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Murder of Yasuko Watanabe

was a 39-year-old unmarried Japanese woman, a senior economic researcher at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) moonlighting as a prostitute on the streets by night.

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Natsuo Kirino

(born October 7, 1951, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture) is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.

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Office lady

An office lady (Ofisuredī), often abbreviated OL (Ōeru), is a female office worker in Japan who performs generally pink-collar tasks such as secretarial or clerical work.

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Out (novel)

is a 1997 Japanese crime novel written by Japanese author Natsuo Kirino and published in English in 2004. Grotesque (novel) and Out (novel) are Japanese crime novels and novels by Natsuo Kirino.

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Paperback

A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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