EAN: 9780143136026

THE WOMAN IN THE PURPLE SKIRT - NATSUKO IMAMURA...

A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness and obsession. --Paula Hawkins  #1 New York Times
bestselling author of The Girl on the Train [It] will keep you firmly in its grip. --Oyinkan
Braithwaite  bestselling author of My Sister  the Serial Killer The love child of Eugene
Ionesco and Patricia Highsmith. --Kelly Link  bestselling author of Get in Trouble A
bestselling  prizewinning novel by one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers  for fans of
Convenience Store Woman  Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine  and the movies Parasite and Rear
Window I think what I'm trying to say is that I've been wanting to become friends with the
Woman in the Purple Skirt for a very long time... Almost every afternoon  the Woman in the
Purple Skirt sits on the same park bench  where she eats a cream bun while the local children
make a game of trying to get her attention. Unbeknownst to her  she is being watched--by the
Woman in the Yellow Cardigan  who is always perched just out of sight  monitoring which buses
she takes  what she eats  whom she speaks to. From a distance  the Woman in the Purple Skirt
looks like a schoolgirl  but there are age spots on her face  and her hair is dry and stiff.
She is single  she lives in a small apartment  and she is short on money--just like the Woman
in the Yellow Cardigan  who lures her to a job as a housekeeper at a hotel  where she too is a
housekeeper. Soon  the Woman in the Purple Skirt is having an affair with the boss and all eyes
are on her. But no one knows or cares about the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan. That's the
difference between her and the Woman in the Purple Skirt. Studiously deadpan and chillingly
voyeuristic  and with the off-kilter appeal of the novels of Ottessa Moshfegh  The Woman in the
Purple Skirt explores envy  loneliness  power dynamics  and the vulnerability of unmarried
women in a taut  suspenseful narrative about the sometimes desperate desire to be seen.

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