Atonement
About This Novel
The masterpiece of Kanae Minato, author of "Confessions" and Japan's Queen of Cruel Mysteries! Growing up with a sense of guilt, he spent his whole life trying to atone for sins that did not belong to him. "Find me the murderer. If you can't find it, use a method that satisfies me to atone for your sins!" Amelie, a girl from Tokyo, died. Faced with the questioning from Amélie's mother, the four girls who were at the scene of the murder could not give an answer anyway. Everyone clearly remembers the details of that day, except the murderer's appearance. After this brutal murder, the lives of several people seemed to come to a complete halt on that hot summer day. For fifteen years, everyone was trying to atone for their sins in their own way. They escape, deceive, suspect, harm themselves, and even commit murder in the endless sense of guilt. Fifteen years later, they revealed each and every suffocating secret in their heart-stopping confessions, restoring the full picture of the case that year. Until then, the murderer finally surfaced. The real "atonement" has just begun...
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Official(6)Scraped 21d ago
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Three views are scattered. Endless crimes, everyone's motives were understandable at first, but later on, human nature gradually became distorted, and even the main culprit received no retribution.
The aunt is so innocent, she is indeed a bit self-centered, but the young couple blames her for breaking up if they don't lock themselves together. Even if they want to take revenge, they still use such a perverted method. The logic is completely strange. How many people has this man harmed? He is the one who deserves atonement the most.
The choices of Brother Xiong and Qiu Hui are completely incomprehensible. The book depicts the perversion of the Japanese so that everyone can understand the cultural characteristics of the book when watching international news
I have watched the adapted Japanese drama before, but I did not watch the last episode of that Japanese drama. Instead, I read the original novel in one go. I think the novel is better than the Japanese drama because the psychological description and the background description of the characters' relationships are very clear in the novel. After reading it, I can understand the logic of the characters' actions. I really like Kanae Kanae's novels.
What a terrible chain of logic. But no matter how exciting the story is, or how insightful a message I want to leave, I have to write ten words.
That teacher was the first person to show bravery in his reaction.
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Official(6)Scraped 21d ago
Finished reading
Three views are scattered. Endless crimes, everyone's motives were understandable at first, but later on, human nature gradually became distorted, and even the main culprit received no retribution.
The aunt is so innocent, she is indeed a bit self-centered, but the young couple blames her for breaking up if they don't lock themselves together. Even if they want to take revenge, they still use such a perverted method. The logic is completely strange. How many people has this man harmed? He is the one who deserves atonement the most.
The choices of Brother Xiong and Qiu Hui are completely incomprehensible. The book depicts the perversion of the Japanese so that everyone can understand the cultural characteristics of the book when watching international news
I have watched the adapted Japanese drama before, but I did not watch the last episode of that Japanese drama. Instead, I read the original novel in one go. I think the novel is better than the Japanese drama because the psychological description and the background description of the characters' relationships are very clear in the novel. After reading it, I can understand the logic of the characters' actions. I really like Kanae Kanae's novels.
What a terrible chain of logic. But no matter how exciting the story is, or how insightful a message I want to leave, I have to write ten words.
That teacher was the first person to show bravery in his reaction.
