My Annihilation
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My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura
What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.
With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary thatimplicates its reader in a heinous crime.
Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, My Annihilation interrogates the unspeakable thoughts all humans share that can be monstrous when brought to life, revealing with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.
Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. He has won numerous prizes for his writing, including Japan's prestigious Ōe Prize; the David L. Goodis Award for Noir Fiction; and the Akutagawa Prize. The Thief, his first novel to be translated into English, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His other novels include Cult X, The Gun, The Kingdom, Evil and the Mask, The Boy in the Earth, and Last Winter, We Parted.
Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. Awarded Grand Prize in the 2016 JLPP International Translation Competition, he won the 2019/2020 Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for his translation of Star by Yukio Mishima. With David Boyd, he is a translator of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven by Mieko Kawakami.
Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. Awarded Grand Prize in the 2016 JLPP International Translation Competition, he won the 2019/2020 Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for his translation of Star by Yukio Mishima. With David Boyd, he is a translator of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven by Mieko Kawakami.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781641294072 |
| ISBN 10 | 1641294078 |
| Title | My Annihilation |
| Author | Fuminori Nakamura |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Soho Press |
| Year published | 2022-12-06 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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