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Swan Song

Swan Song

General Fiction

(japanese) Kanae Minato

105K01

A pair of twins, the disliked one survived, but the other died in the ruins of the earthquake. He looked at his name engraved on the cold tombstone, but buried under the tombstone was his sister. Do you want to live in the name of another person? Do what she likes to do and eat what she likes to eat? People who "died" in the earthquake were reborn on the southern island. Four people with different destinies met in the same place. On that island, tomorrow is closer than elsewhere, and the light is a little longer than the darkness. We regained our shattered hopes on that island. In order to survive, for you, I work hard alone. There is an island in everyone's life, where the courage and hope of life are hidden.

Wangxiang

Wangxiang

General Fiction

(japanese) Kanae Minato

94K02

This is the island where I have lived since I was a child. The people here are simple and ignorant. Hatred breeds here and pain is soothed here. But one day I will leave it. A best-selling female writer who has been stigmatized by elopement and has not returned home for twenty-five years; Meng Duzi, who lives in the shadow of her grandma, and any happiness is a betrayal of her past suffering; a rookie singer who is bullied because she is the son of a murderer; a girl who is isolated by the class... Those who are hurt by their hometown, those who are comforted, those who leave with secret sins, and those who have no choice but to stay, it is their hometown that makes them what they are today.

Atonement

Atonement

General Fiction

(japanese) Kanae Minato

94K7.56

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...