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Piercing
- Author
- Ryu Murakami
- Narrator
- Kenichiro Thomson
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 27 November 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use it. Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder...
Critics Review
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‘Equally compelling and disturbing ... a dark psycho-thriller'
Daily Mail
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‘Piercing is a Japanese extension of David Lynch's world: surreal, sexually anguished, highly neurotic, both knowing and naive'
Guardian
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‘Each time a new book by Ryu Murakami is published, the people at the Japanese Tourist Board must hang their heads in despair ... darkly witty'
Daily Telegraph
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‘There are echoes here of Edgar Allan Poe and Dostoyevsky - Murakami shares their fascination with the darkest layer of the soul, and the appalling isolation of the criminal. Creepy and gripping'
Kate Saunders, The Times
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Details
- Author
- Ryu Murakami
- Narrator
- Kenichiro Thomson
- Duration
- 5 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9781526684868
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Piercing by Ryu Murakami, read by Kenichiro ThomsonEvery night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use it. Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder...
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