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Violence
A lot
Violence including against children; depicted with Minato's characteristic clinical precision
Language
Barely any
Mild language in the literary translation register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Some substance use
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Extreme psychological darkness — each character's perspective reveals new levels of manipulation, cruelty, and moral vacancy — makes this one of the most psychologically disturbing literary novels of the past decade
What this book is about
Kanae Minato's literary thriller follows Yuko, a middle school teacher whose daughter was killed by students in her class. Rather than reporting them to the police, she reveals what she knows to the class and describes her plan for revenge — setting off a chain of events that destroys everyone involved. Minato writes with extraordinary psychological precision and moral darkness; the novel's characters are unreliable, and the violence and psychological horror escalate methodically. For adult readers of literary dark fiction.
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