![]() ![]() When her parents abscond from the family home, she is left in the care of an uncle and his family. ![]() The heroine of Anonymous on the Streets is Mayu, a 16-year-old in her first year in high school. A sequel will be serialized in the Shūkan Asahi from next spring. In her 2018 novel Rojō no X (Anonymous on the Streets), she depicts female high school students who have lost their moorings and are exploited in the shady world of “subsidized dating” and the “ JK industry” (JK stands for joshi kōsei, or “high school girls”). ![]() Her novels portray heroines in difficult circumstances, and reveal the dark side and structural problems of Japanese society today. For more than quarter of a century, Kirino Natsuo’s bestselling novels have depicted women in a variety of desperate situations: housewives working the night shift at a food factory who get embroiled in murder, an employee at an elite company who finds fulfilment by selling herself on the streets at night, and a former member of the United Red Army who has kept her past a secret. ![]()
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