The Girls (少女)

Today I will introduce my favorite novelist, Kanae Minato’s novel, Girls. Kanae Minato’s masterpiece is "The Confession". This novel was made into a film in 2010 and was chosen for a Japanese Academy Award. It is a very famous novel.  Most of Kanae Minato’s novels have been made into films.

STORY
The transfer student said that she had witnessed the suicide of a close friend. Yuki felt the confession like a pride. She wanted to see the moment when a person died, but not the body. Atsuko, who had thought about suicide, thought that she could talk about death if she looked at the body and could get used to being strong. Yuki went to the pediatric ward and Atsuko went to the nursing home to see death. Do the two high school students see the moment of death?

IMPRESSIONS

This novel is easy to read. I think that even people who do not like reading books can read it. All characters in this novel are related to the two girls. They have big problems. This novel’s charm is the change in feeling of the two girls as the story progresses. Everything connects at last, I was drawn into this story. I was very shocked at the moment when the outcome was revealed. Please check it out!