Just when you think you know where this thriller. CONFESSIONS is a dark, disturbing tale that twists and turns on itself like an Escher print.

As the characters in CONFESSIONS are stripped of their secrets, the novel reveals its audacious dark heart. The film version directed by Tetsuya Nakashima is also an excellent adaptation and is available for free in two parts on Dailymotion: part 1 and part 2.įeatured screenshot by Andrea Mau via Tetsuya Nakashima. Dont be fooled by the hypnotic beauty of Kanae Minatos prose. That is, if the killer kids hadn’t already done it.Ĭonfessions by Kanae Minato and translated by Stephen Snyder is a must-read novel available on Amazon Prime. Because of this conflict the novel truly challenges the reader’s sense of right or wrong. In the first few sentences of the novel, the narrator, a female middle-school teacher named Moriguchi, establishes. What’s the best about Confessions is that the reader is never too sure who to root for, because just like real life, people and issues are often morally grey and there is no right answer. Minato’s characters are as unexpectedly brutal as their creator seems to be. It is psychological horror at its best by presenting an issue that is conflicting even for the reader. Confessions doesn’t just take away the myth that children are incapable of evil, but explores the idea fully in ways that are uncomfortable for the reader.

By far the most shocking aspect of this book is its depictions of youth, as their scheming and brutal actions place them into a decidedly malevolent view. I admire Kanae Minato’s ‘take no prisoners’ approach to morality in this novel. Screenshot by Andrea Mau via Tetsuya Nakashima. A recipient of the Radio Drama Award, the Detective Novel Prize for New Writers, and the National Booksellers' Award, Minato lives in Japan. Scene from the movie adaption of Confessions. Kanae Minato was a housewife before her debut novel Confessions skyrocketed to the top of the Japanese charts and turned her into the year's bestselling novelist.

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