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Battle Royale

By: Koushun Takami, Yuji Oniki - translator
Narrated by: Mark Dacascos
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Battle Royale, a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence in a dystopian world, it is one of Japan's best-selling - and most controversial - novels. As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons. Forced to wear special collars that explode when they break a rule, they must fight each other for three days until only one "winner" remains. The elimination contest becomes the ultimate in must-see reality television.

A Japanese pulp classic available in English-language audio for the first time, Battle Royale is a potent allegory of what it means to be young and survive in today's dog-eat-dog world. The first novel by small-town journalist Koushun Takami, it went on to become an even more notorious film by 70-year-old director Kinji Fukusaku.

©1999 Koushun Takami; Translation copyright 2009, Yuji Oniki (P)2012 Simon & Schuster Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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A young adult book written by a man with the maturity of a YA. This book is about teenagers, for teenagers, even if the author didn’t set out for this to be the case, it very much is . If u like young adult then read this. If u don’t then dont.

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