Redemption

WORLD BESTSELLER.
BASED ON A CULT SERIES FILMED IN JAPAN.

The author is a recognized master of the iyamisu style, exploring the dark sides of human nature. This is one of the main directions in modern Japanese detective fiction.

Five schoolgirls were playing... volleyball near the school pool. A man approached them and asked for help checking the ventilation in the dressing room. He chose one of the girls and took her away, while the others simply continued playing. Realizing that their friend had been gone for too long, they went after her. And with horror, they saw her dead body…
No matter how many times the girls were interrogated, they could not remember the face of the killer. Then the mother of the deceased gathered them together and accused them of her daughter's death. She said: "I will not forgive you until you find the murderer. If you cannot do this, find another way to atone for your guilt that I will accept. If you do neither, I tell you here and now: I will take revenge on each of you".
And the lives of the girls turned into a nightmare for many years…

This novel strikes at the heart, making one seriously reflect on the responsibility for the actions we have taken — or, conversely, have not taken, which turned out to be even worse…
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"She is the Japanese Gillian Flynn…" — Los Angeles Times

"A tense psychological drama… filled with strange intertwinings of the random and the inevitable, free will and manipulation, the mundane and the whimsical". — Wall Street Journal

"Minato exposes the wounds hidden beneath the flawless skin of Japanese society". — Publishers Weekly

"Just when you think you know where the story is going, Kanae Minato raises another curtain, revealing yet another face of the mystery". — Jenny Milchman

"Do not be deceived by the hypnotic beauty of Kanae Minato's prose. As the characters of the novel reveal their secrets, the dark heart of the narrative is exposed. Flawless, thrilling reading". — Hilary Davidson

"Kanae Minato is a brilliant storyteller". — Emily St. John Mandel