Battle Royale: Remastered

ISBN-13:	9781421565989
Publisher:	Haikasoru
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Series:	Battle Royale (Novel)
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	656
Sales rank:	26,635
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.80(d)

In a dystopian future Japan, forty-two junior high school students are outfitted with weapons and bid to kill one another until there is only one left standing.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.