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The Woman in the Purple Skirt audiobook
- By: Natsuko Imamura
- Narrator: Jennifer Ikeda
- Category: Contemporary Women, Fiction
- Length: 3 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt Audiobook Summary
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR · Marie Claire
“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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The Woman in the Purple Skirt Full Details
| Narrator | Jennifer Ikeda |
| Length | 3 hours 55 minutes |
| Author | Natsuko Imamura |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593410790 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Woman in the Purple Skirt is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: weird fiction, stalking novels, Japanese novel, gifts for her, psychological thriller books, gifts for women, mystery thriller suspense, literary fiction, psychological thrillers, womens gifts, suspense, suspense books, thriller books, thrillers, thriller, asian authors, good books for women, women's fiction, mysteries and thrillers, fiction, novels, women, women gifts, fiction books, books fiction, psychological thrillers books, suspense thriller books, mystery and thriller, suspense fiction, romance, relationships, Fiction, Contemporary Women The BISAC Subject Code is Contemporary Women, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the The Woman in the Purple Skirt is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593410790.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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