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by KANAE Minato

Description

  • Nozomi Sugishita, Shinji Naruse, Nozomi Andoh and Masato Nishizaki witnessed the deaths of Takashiro and Naoko Nouguchi. Nozomi Sugishita should be the only witness because Shinji Naruse and Nozomi Andon arrived after the couple were killed. Masato Nishizaki admitted that he was the murderer. Is this the truth?

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Rights Information

**2021 new deal: two books deal after auction in Poland**


Rights sold: Poland, Korea, China, Taiwan


Adaption: TV drama

Marketing Information

Sales figures: over 1,000,000 copies in Japan

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

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.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Futabasha
  • Orginal LanguageJapanese
  • ISBN/Identifier 9784488024550 / 4488024556
  • Publication Country or regionJapan
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 1,250 JPY
  • Pages256
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleNのために
  • Original Language Authors湊かなえ
  • Copyright Year2010

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