Confessions
by KANAE Minato
Description
Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge.
After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and handed in her resignation.
But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a diabolical 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 danger. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again.
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Rights Information
- 2021 New deals: two books deal after auction in Poland
- Rights sold:
Brazil: Autentica Editora Ltda. / China: CS-BOOKY / France: Seuil / German: Verlagsgruppe Random House / Indonesia: PT.Haru Media Sejahtera / Italy: Neri Pozza / Korea: Viche Books (Gimm-Yong) / Malaysia: KADOKAWA GEMPAK STARZ SDN BHD / Poland: Tajfuny / Portugal: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Unipessoal, Lda. / Spain: NOCTURNA EDICIONES S.L / Taiwan: China Times / Thailand: Amarin / USA: Hachette Book Group Hodder＆Stoughton / Vietnam: NHA NAM PUBLISHING AND COMMUNICATIONS JOINT STOCK CO.
Adaption: film, manga
Marketing Information
- Sales figures: over 3,000,000 copies in Japan
- Winner of the ALA's 2015 Alex Award for the Best Adult Books That Appeal to Teen Audiences
- Nominated for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel - One of Booklist's Best Crime Novels of the Year
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Emily’s note
I read Confessions when it was just published in Japan and was amazed that Kanae Minato had managed to create a new genre of crime novel and believed she would be huge in the future. I was eager to publish the book then but lost the auction. So, I kept my eye on her next books. I signed Penance, For N, and Night Tightrope before Confessions was published in Taiwan. When Confessions became hugely successful there, I had already signed most of her books. And she became the Queen of crime novel. Higashino Keigo is the King of crime novel.
In Japan, they have a morning true crime TV program. The journalist interviews different people who were witness to a crime and they talk about their points of view. I like to watch it because you find different angles of the truth. When I read Kanae Minato’s fiction, I believed she must be the big fan of this program. She was a house wife and loved to watch this TV program and then created her own writing style. At that time, I offered for Night Tightrope and waited for one year without any news. After one year, the sub-agent in Taiwan asked me if I wanted to keep on waiting or giving up? I said I will never give up Kanae Minato’s book. Finally I got the contract. Kanae Minato’s books became abestseller in Taiwan.
It was worth the wait!
Reviews
"A Japanese Gone Girl...Confessions will drop your jaw right to the floor. The most delightfully evil book you'll read this year. A gut-wrenching thrill-ride with clean, high-impact language."―Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times
Author Biography
KANAE Minato (湊かなえ, Japanese author, born 1973) has been described in Japan as "the queen of iyamisu." Iyamisu (eww mystery) is a subgenre of mystery fiction which deals with grisly episodes and the dark side of human nature. Readers blurt out "eww" when they are reading iyamisu novels. The term was created in 2006 by the mystery critic Aoi Shimotsuki.
The English edition of Minato's Confessions, published in August 2014, was described by a critic as "the Gone Girl of Japan."
Wall Street Journal selected Confessions as one of the 10 best mysteries of 2014
Emily Publishing Company
Founded in 2012 by Emily Chuang. Emily Publishing mainly publishes translated fiction, non-fiction and children's picture books and starts to represent selected books from Taiwan and Japan to all over the world since 2019.
View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publisher Futabasha
- Orginal LanguageJapanese
- ISBN/Identifier 9784575236286 / 4575236284
- Publication Country or regionJapan
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 1,400 JPY
- Pages268
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Title告白
- Original Language Authors湊かなえ
- Copyright Year2008
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