“Confessions” Kanae Minato (2008) Review | Japanese school life at extreme

Confessions
Kanae Minato, 2008
告白
湊かなえ
240 pages
Read in 2026.03
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✔ A teacher declares that her daughter was killed by someone in her class
✔ People then confess what they did and saw
✔ Japanese school life at extreme

★★★★★ A teacher confesses her daughter was killed by someone in her classroom, then in the form of confessions the twisted truth will be told. Irresistible power of storytelling.

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Irresistible power of storytelling.
I first thought it was a confession from the teacher that she knows someone in the classroom killed her daughter.
No it's more complicated as suggested by the English title this is about "confessions" plural.

There are numerous confessions, they tell us what they did, saw or think, but what if they actually don't know the truth, or maybe they're not saying the truth?
It doesn't only reveal the crime scene but reveals the truth about the people they thought they knew well, or their weakness.

Confidence, friendship, motherhood, and the crime itself.
You cannot put down the book until you are sure of what really happened.
 

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Confessions