Piercing

Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife Yoko and their healthy baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment. Every night, however, Kawashima creeps from his bed and watches over the baby’s crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. As he stands gazing at his little girl, Kawashima has an ice-pick in his hand, and an almost visceral desire to use it. Kawashima decides to confront his demons, and sets into motion an uncontrollable chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder… The follow-up to In the Miso Soup, Piercing confirms Murakami as the master of the psycho-thriller. Read and be terrified, sickened, and utterly gripped.