Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is as a dark look into human
psyche--what turns someone into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn
this page and you may forfeit your entire life. A confessional diary implicates its reader in
a heinous crime and reveals with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.
With [this novel the author] has constructed a puzzle-box of a narrative that delves
relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness that interrogates the unspeakable
thoughts that all humans share and that only monsters act on--
