Minato, a homemaker and former home economics teacher, also spotlights the dysfunction that can fester beneath the tidy surface of Japanese society as well as the searing fury of a mother's love gone wrong. The movie Confession directed by Tetsuya Nakashima was nominated to 2011 Academy Award. Her first novel Confessions (, Kokuhaku) became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. The suspense intensifies as the entire Machiavellian web only belatedly becomes clear. Kanae MINATO (, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller. The plan's twisted genius emerges gradually through restrained first-person chapters narrated by Yuko and other principals. It's a novel I'll think about for a very long time. As Minato expertly shifts the perspective from one character to the next, each change in perspective lends a startling new dimension to a gripping and profoundly unsettling tale. But when she subsequently discovers evidence that points to foul play, Yuko decides to draw on her knowledge of the culprits to exact retribution far more terrible than the punishment that would have been meted out to such youthful offenders by the authorities. 'Kanae Minato is a brilliant storyteller, and CONFESSIONS is a superb and haunting work. Initially, single mother Yuko Moriguchi's grief mixes with guilt when police rule little Manami's death accidental she accepts the blow as yet another in a lengthy series, including the HIV-positive diagnosis that Manami's father received during Yuko's pregnancy, which prompted him to break off their engagement. The murder of a young science teacher's trusting four-year-old daughter by some of her own 13-year-old students sets in motion a diabolic revenge plot with devastating collateral damage in Minato's outstanding debut, which inspired the Oscar nominated film.
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