Kanae Minato - Böcker

'Kanae Minato is a brilliant storyteller' Emily St John Mandel, author of Station ElevenWhen a group of young girls are approached by a stranger, they cannot know that the encounter will haunt them for the rest of their lives.Hours later, Emily is dead. The surviving girls alone can identify the killer. But not one of them remembers his face...Driven mad by grief, the victim's mother demands the girls find the murderer or else atone for their crimes. If they do neither, she will have her revenge. She will make them pay...From the critically acclaimed author of Confessions, Penance is a dark and disturbing tale of revenge that will leave you reeling.

When Yuko Moriguchi's four-year-old daughter died in the middle school where she teaches, everyone thought it was a tragic accident. It's the last day of term, and Yuko's last day at work. She tells her students that she has resigned because of what happened - but not for the reasons they think. Her daughter didn't die in an accident. Her daughter was killed by two people in the class. And before she leaves, she has a lesson to teach...But revenge has a way of spinning out of control, and Yuko's last lecture is only the start of the story. In this bestselling Japanese thriller of love, despair and murder, everyone has a confession to make, and no one will escape unharmed.

"Utopia" av Kanae Minato är en fängslande och tankeväckande roman som utforskar mänsklig natur och samhällets komplexiteter. Den behandlar teman som brott, rättvisa och strävan efter en perfekt värld och lämnar läsarna fängslade av dess spännande berättelse och skarpa sociala kommentarer.

Detta är historien om läraren Yuko Moriguchi som på sista skoldagen meddelar sina elever att hon inte längre kommer arbeta där. Några dagar tidigare hittades hennes dotter död i skolans pool. Det verkade vara en olycka, men Yuko upptäcker att hon blev mördad av två pojkar i hennes klass. Den allra sista dagen kommer hon att berätta för dem att hon redan har påbörjat sin hämnd mot dem.