This in turn only isolates her more and ends up having jumping from bad job to another bad one. With time, the narrator grows to hate almost everyone, her classmates, her parents, co-workers etc.

As the novel progresses, the reader is introduced to many other characters with whom the narrator comes in contact at her highly prestigious Q High School. From there she becomes a full-time prostitute, and declines as she ages. Everyone is automatically drawn to Yuriko's beauty, who realizes her power on men and soon afterwards also realizes she can make money out of it. Yuriko's diary does show an ability to think for herself that her sister always denied out of rage. While the narrator is smart, responsible and plain looking, Yuriko is strikingly beautiful but flighty and irresponsible. The narrator hates her younger sister Yuriko because she was always looked down when being compared with Yuriko. The narrator of Grotesque is unnamed and forever lives under the shadow of her younger-by-a-year sister Yuriko, who is unimaginably beautiful and the center of all attention. The book is written in the first person for all parts and follows a woman whose sister and old school friend have been murdered. Publisher Knopf censored the American translation, removing a section involving underage male prostitution, as it was considered too taboo for U. It was published in English in 2007, translated by Rebecca Copeland. Grotesque is a 2003 crime novel by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino, most famous for her novel Out.

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