![]() If obtaining some sort of benefit for one being necessitates the elimination of another, then so be it. Human beings are just one among an infinite number of entities, living or otherwise, that exist on the earth. ![]() It is a suspense novel that traces the impact of a schoolteacher's act of revenge, and it deals with themes of motherhood and power as well as social issues like AIDS and hikikomori. "But I don't necessarily understand why it's evil per se. Confessions is Stephen Snyder's 2014 translation of Kanae Minato's 2008 debut novel, Kokuhaku. "I understand why murder is considered a crime," the Nietschean-in-the-making Shuya explains, with cold theatricality, later in the tale. Confessions is Stephen Snyders 2014 translation of Kanae Minatos 2008 debut novel, Kokuhaku. These include Shuya, a seemingly narcissistic boy with a knack for electronics and a masochistic mother fixation, and his more guilt-prone accomplice Naoki, a sort of Japanese Leopold and Loeb who, for reasons that become clear only slowly, murder the beloved 4-year-old daughter of their middle school teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() As its title suggests, "Confessions" is a pulp-fiction tell-all of sorts: a collection of unburdenings by participants in a series of chillingly calculated crimes that come to seem less the work of psychopaths than of ordinary (if extraordinarily wounded) people, some of whom happen to be 13-year-olds. ![]()
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