My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura
My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura
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My Annihilation

Author: Fuminori Nakamura, Sam Bett

Narrator: Brian Nishii

Unabridged: 3 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/11/2022

Synopsis

What transforms a person into a killer? Could it be something as small as a suggestion?

Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.

With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime. Delving relentlessly into the darkest
corners of human consciousness, My Annihilation interrogates the unspeakable thoughts all humans share that can be monstrous when brought to life, revealing with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.

About Fuminori Nakamura

Fuminori Nakamura has won numerous prizes for his writing, including Japan’s prestigious ÅŒe Prize; the David L. Goodis Award for Noir Fiction; and the Akutagawa Prize. The Thief, his first novel to be translated into English, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His other novels include Cult X, The Gun, The Kingdom, Evil and the Mask, The Boy in the Earth, My Annihilation, and Last Winter, We Parted. He was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim

I don't know what you think this book is about going into it, but you are most likely wrong. I know I was. What is it about? Honestly, the less you know the better. This is a book you should walk into blind and experience for yourself. Instead of a plot description, let me give you a warning instea......more

Goodreads review by Jesse (JesseTheReader)

(2.5) LISTEN.. this was one of the most confusing books I've ever read and despite that I was still HOOKED from beginning to end. The author did a fantastic job of building up suspense and adding in sprinkles of tension at just the right moments. I loved the concept of delving into a story within a......more

Goodreads review by Sam

A man reads a mysterious manuscript in a lodge. He’s there to assume a new identity. Also in the room is a suitcase - with a body inside. So begins the bizarre journey of Fuminori Nakamura’s latest novel, My Annihilation. I don’t really rate Nakamura very highly as a writer - he’s written one medioc......more

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