CONFESSIONS
When Yuko Moriguchi's four-year-old daughter dies at the middle school where she teaches, her colleagues and students assume it was a terrible accident. It's the final day of term, and also Yuko's last day in the job. Standing before her class, she announces her resignation, though her reasons are far darker than anyone suspects. Her daughter wasn't taken by misfortune. Two pupils in that very room are responsible. And before she walks out for good, she has one final lesson to deliver. What follows is anything but straightforward. Revenge, it turns out, rarely stays where you put it, and Yuko's parting words set off a chain of events that spirals far beyond her intentions. This celebrated Japanese thriller, originally a bestseller in its home country, peels back its story through multiple voices, each carrying their own guilt, grief, and warped logic. Love curdles into obsession. Despair drives people to shocking places. Every character, it seems, has something to admit. Minato writes with a cold, precise intensity that keeps you off-balance throughout, and the novel's structure, shifting perspectives and unreliable voices, gives the whole thing an unsettling momentum. It's a gripping, deeply uncomfortable read, and that's precisely what makes it so memorable.
- Author: Kanae Minato
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre: Horror
- ISBN: 978-1444732450
- Pages: 240 pages