Fuminori Nakamura

Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is as a dark look into human psyche--what turns someone into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? 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, that interrogates the unspeakable thoughts that all humans share and that only monsters act on.

My Annihilation

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This is the tradeoff for passing over to the other side. To make a dream come true, something must be sacrificed.

If I took my eyes off her, she tried to kill herself, and if I tried to stop her she would scream. All that I could do was make her go to sleep.

'graveyard of the rich' might not actually mean anything within the context of the narrative but i just really liked the choice in wording.

"You're welcome back anytime. To my comfortable abode." He gave me a faint smile. "This graveyard of the rich."

When human beings can cover their faces and hide behind a shield of goodness, they release their aggression without hesitation.

(there must be something wrong with me because the first thing i thought of upon reading this was 'oh it's giving sasuke')

—Turn that self-hate on your enemies. Don't change it into something else. Trade your good health for revenge.

we found love in a hopeless place 🎤 (for legal purposes i do NOT mean this i am shitposting. this is a jokey joke)

"There's a lot that we don't know about each other... but maybe this distance is a good thing... When I'm with you, I don't feel the tension that I always feel with other people. If someone saw us from afar, we'd look like a pretty old couple."

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