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After strangling her husband, Masako Katori, a middle-aged wife and mother working the night shift at a Tokyo factory, enlists the aid of four co-workers to conceal the crime.
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Yakuza, Fiction, Japanese fiction, Translations into English, Tokyo (japan), fiction, Crime, fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, thrillers, general, Japan, fiction, Yakuza--japan--fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Social conditions, Pl855.i566 o8713 2005Places
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Published in Japanese under the same title by Kodansha Ltd. in 1997.
"Winner of Japan's top mystery award"--Jacket.
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In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.
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