Library book: Confessions by Kane Minato
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 08/19/2014
Pages: 210
Genre: Mystery/Murder/Thriller
Review: Library book
Her pupils killed her daughter. Now, she will have her revenge.
After an engagement that ended in tragedy, all Yuko Moriguchi had to live for was her four-year-old child, Manami. Now, after a heartbreaking accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.
But first, she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that will upend everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge.
Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never see coming, Confessions probes the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in harm's way. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again
After an engagement that ended in tragedy, all Yuko Moriguchi had to live for was her four-year-old child, Manami. Now, after a heartbreaking accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.
But first, she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that will upend everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge.
Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never see coming, Confessions probes the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in harm's way. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again
I had seen this book in a couple of Facebook groups, and I figured I would give it a shot. The cover was one that really pulled me in. By saying that I was in line from my public library, I was #57th in line. It seemed to take forever for me to be able to read it lol.
Now, once I started reading it, I was invested. Who was really behind the killing of the young child? I loved how the domino effect seemed to have taken place: this happened, so this happened, and then finally this.
The story is told in different tones and different POV's so you need to make sure you are really paying attention. The people you think didn't have a part in the young child dying, do just not directly. It does seem to be a lot of retelling what happened and that can get bothersome, but overall I don't believe I have ever read a story quite like this one. I was very surprised with the outcome; it was not the one I had expected.
She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions (告白, Kokuhaku) became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. The movie Confession directed by Tetsuya Nakashima was nominated to 2011 Academy Award.
She has been described in Japan as "the queen of iyamisu"(eww mystery), a subgenre of mystery fiction which deals with grisly episodes and the dark side of human nature.
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