Wired after watching The Commitments one evening, we flipped through the Netflix suggestions
and happened across this Japanese television show. Like most Japanese television,
it’s somewhat bizarre. Most likely, you’ll
turn to your viewing partner a couple of times and say “whaaaa?!” Admittedly,
it’s also strangely addictive.
Kanae Minato’s Confessions
another product of Japan, has the same mesmerizing but perplexing quality.
Even as you read about the book’s central tragedy from varying viewpoints, you
might also find yourself thinking one or more of these
expressions.
Confessions
opens on the last day of school. After giving a brief lecture on being a “model
middle school for the Health Ministry’s campaign to promote dairy products,” a
teacher who is retiring slips into a long, painfully personal, soliloquy. She
ends by explaining what revenge she’s exacted on the two students she blames
for the accident involving her young daughter Manami. One by one, these students, as well as their
family members and classmates, recount the tragedy from his or her perspective
as well as lay bare the horrifying consequences of her accusations.
Who knew reading a “book of genre fiction intranslation” could simultaneously evoke multiple senses of the word
sensational?
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