Battle royale 1999
By Kōshun Takami, Masayuki Taguchi, Koushun Takami, Kashoun Takami, KOUSHUM TAKAMI, Koushum Takami
- Junior high school students, Comic books, strips, Reality television programs, Fiction
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.
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Grave, bleak, relentless and contemporary.
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- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Kōshun Takami, Masayuki Taguchi, Koushun Takami, Kashoun Takami, KOUSHUM TAKAMI, Koushum Takami
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 624
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, PLANETA, Haikasoru
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French
- ISBN
- 9781974743797
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- Junior high school students
- Comic books, strips
- Reality television programs
- Fiction
- Graphic novels
- Graphic Novels - Manga
- Comics & Graphic Novels
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- Comics & Graphic Novels / Graphic Novels / Manga
- Comics & graphic novels, east asian style, manga, fantasy
- Comics & graphic novels, east asian style, manga, general
- Junior high school students -- Fiction
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