My Annihilation, Hardcover

Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.

A confessional diary implicates its reader in a heinous crime, and reveals with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.

With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative that delves relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, interrogating the unspeakable thoughts all humans share and only monsters act on.

About author(s):Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. He has won numerous prizes for his writing, including Japan's prestigious Ōe Prize; the David L. Goodis Award for Noir Fiction; and the Akutagawa Prize. The Thief, his first novel to be translated into English, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His other novels include Cult X, The Gun, The Kingdom, Evil and the Mask, The Boy in the Earth, and Last Winter, We Parted.

Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. Awarded Grand Prize in the 2016 JLPP International Translation Competition, he won the 2019/2020 Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for his translation of Star by Yukio Mishima. With David Boyd, he is a translator of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven by Mieko Kawakami.