In remarks to her pupils on the last day of the term, the unmarried Yuko announces her retirement: "You're the last students I'll ever teach, and I'll remember you for as long as I live." She takes this occasion to tell the class her life story-up to the recent death of her 4-year-old daughter, found drowned in the school's swimming pool.Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The first narrative voice-implacable, relentless-belongs to Yuko Moriguchi, teacher of a class of mostly 13-year-olds in a school a few hours from Tokyo. Yuko Moriguchi decides to retire from teaching after her daughter, Manami, dies in. 'I want to warn you," writes a disturbed Japanese middle-school student in Kanae Minato's chilling and effective work of psychological suspense "Confessions" (Mulholland, 234 pages, $15), "against easy explanations." A reader is almost certain to be caught off guard more than once by the revelations of this award-winning best seller (translated from the Japanese), which presents its plot through a half-dozen different points of view. Confessions by Kanae Minato eBook Details. This is a short thriller - less than 250 pages - that is all about revenge.
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