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 A chilling Japanese psychological thriller and Edgar Award finalist about four women, forever connected by one horrible day in their childhood -- fifteen years later, someone wants to make sure they never forget.

When they were girls, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into leaving their friend Emily with a mysterious stranger. Then the unthinkable occurred: Emily was found murdered hours later.

The four friends were never able to describe the stranger to the police; the killer's trail went cold. Asako, the bereaved mother, curses the surviving girls, vowing that they will be the ones to pay for her daughter's murder . . .

Like Confessions, Kanae Minato's award-winning, internationally bestselling debut, Penance is a dark tale of revenge and psychological drama that will leave readers breathless. Détective Femmes détectives Fiction Fiction féminine Psychologiques Roman policier Romans policiers et crimes internationaux Thrillers et romans à suspense Suspense

Ce que les critiques en disent

"With echoes of fairy tales and a Rashomon-like narrative structure, Minato's Penance is as ethereal and literary as it is a sharp, tight crime novel."—Literary Hub
"[A] suspenseful psychological melodrama. . . . Filled with strange entwinings of chance and effect, free will and manipulation, the mundane and the bizarre."—The Wall Street Journal
"Minato writes character driven mystery/crime novels that take deep dives into people's psychology--especially girls and women--with an unflinching look at the dark side of humans. I will read any novel she writes."
—BookRiot
"Minato's simple, clear voice highlights the stories' psychological intensity, and themes of powerlessness evolving to strength, duty, and redemption create layers of interest that are perfect for book-group dissection."—Booklist (starred review)
"Moving, tension-filled . . . Minato has crafted an unnerving tale of tragedy, guilt, and penance."—Publishers Weekly
"Kanae Minato is a brilliant storyteller."—Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven
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There are quite a few Japanese words in this story that remained after translation. There aren't English equivalents for these words I realize, and the narrator DOES pronounce the characters' Japanese names correctly. However, the words that the narrator mispronounces appear frequently, and it was distracting. I think that this was distracting because I speak Japanese and English. I'm aware it's not easy to pronounce words in other languages, but perhaps there needs to be something that Audible (or the publisher or someone) provides to inform narrators of the correct pronunciation of non-English words. That may be asking too much, but I think it would improve the narrator's performance.

Japanese Words Not Always Pronounced Correctly

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For this story based on secrets and silence, not enough would have been better than too much. The narrator should have been realed back a little. Most of her female caracters interventions were on the teary/hysteric side and it pulled me out of the story everytime. Really annoying.

Great story, but the narrator was too much

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