Battle Royale (Unabridged)
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
In an alternative future Japan, junior high students are forced to fight to the death! L to R (Western Style). Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: 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 one another until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan--where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller--Battle Royale is a Lord of the Fliesfor the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language. A group of high school students are taken to small isolated island and forced to fight each other until only one remains alive! If they break the rules a special collar blows their heads off. Koushun Takami's brutal, high-octane thriller is told in breathless. blow-by-blow fashion. Battle Royale is a contemporary Japanese pulp classic now available for the first time in English.
Customer Reviews
20/10
For someone who didn’t like the lord of the flies, this is possibly my favorite book. The story is very intriguing, it has a very even amount of description and plot, no matter how quickly characters enter and exit the story, you always get to know them a fair amount. In the the distant future I can see this becoming a required reading book in high school. ( P.S, I have the physical copy, I don’t know why there isn’t an Ebook version of it)