Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
San Francisco : Haikasoru, 2014
DESCRIPTION
647 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781421565989 (paperback), 1421565986 (paperback), 9781421565989
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan--where it became a runaway best seller--Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world"--