Out’ by Natsuo Kirino is a masterpiece from the queen of Japanese crime – an unflinching, fast-moving foray into the darkest recesses of society and the human soul. moreIn 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.