Instead of a slow build-up like many mystery novels, from the very first page the reader is thrown into the midst of chaos. I came into this book knowing it would be a dark & gritty murder mystery, but was still surprised at the story’s intensity. You’ll never look at a classroom the same way again. Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you’ll never see coming,Confessions probes the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in harm’s way. She tells a story that will upend everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge.
Now, after a heartbreaking accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.īut first, she has one last lecture to deliver. Now, she will have her revenge.Īfter an engagement that ended in tragedy, all Yuko Moriguchi had to live for was her four-year-old child, Manami. Page Length: 240 pages (paperback edition) Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense All Rights Reserved.Book Review: “Confessions” by Kanae Minato 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. '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.
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