Kanae Minato

Confessions (Japanese: 告白, Hepburn: Kokuhaku) is the 2008 debut novel by Kanae Minato. It is a suspense novel that traces the impact of a schoolteacher's act of revenge, and it deals with themes of motherhood and power as well as social issues like AIDS and hikikomori. The novel's chapters are in the form of a one-sided conversation, a letter, a diary entry, a reminiscion, a blog post, and a one-sided phone call. The novel was translated into English by Stephen Snyder and published in 2014. The …