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product_id: 104235789
title: "Penance"
brand: "kanae minato"
price: "257 DH"
currency: MAD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 10
url: https://www.desertcart.ma/products/104235789-penance
store_origin: MA
region: Morocco
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# Penance

**Brand:** kanae minato
**Price:** 257 DH
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Penance by kanae minato
- **How much does it cost?** 257 DH with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

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    Not as good as Confessions
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018*

I purchased Kanae Minato’s second book because I loved Confessions so much.  I loved it so much that it is one of my top recommended books!  Penance follows the same formula, but lacks the dark and twisty twists of Confessions.  I was on the edge of my seat reading Confessions, while I had a little trouble keeping the characters straight in Penance.The story is about the murder of 10 year old Emily.  She and her family moved from Tokyo to a small town for her father’s work.  Emily is more cosmopolitan than the other children.  However, she befriends Sae, Maki, Akiko, and Yuko.  The girls are playing at the school one day and are approached by a workman, who requests the help of one of the girls.  He picked Emily.  Hours later, the girls find their friend murdered in the locker room of the pool.  The murder is never solved.  A couple of years later, before returning to Tokyo, Emily’s mother Asako, calls the girls to her house and threatens them to either do an acceptable penance for her daughter’s death or to find the killer.  The story is told from the perspective of each of the four girls when they are in their mid-20’s.  Each girl has been essentially “cursed” by Asako’s parting words and their lives do not turn out well.  The final chapter is narrated by Asako, as she tries to do penance for her harsh words.This book did not captivate me in the same way as Confessions.  It moved along at a good clip, but the story was not as tight and tense as her first book.  It was difficult to distinguish among the characters as they seemed to lack individual voices.  The secondary characters, like Sae’s husband and Akiko’s brother were more interesting to me.  I would have liked to know more about them.  The murder is solved in the end, but it is rather unsatisfying as the murderer was barely a character in the book.  Much of my review is colored by the comparison to Confessions.  I read Penance based on the strength of Ms. Minato’s first book and I was somewhat disappointed.

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    Improbable, but engrossing
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2017*

Five young girls play on the school grounds after school. One is taken away, raped and murdered by a strange man. The four survivors are left deeply traumatized. The victim's mother, mad with grief, irrationally blames Emily's four playmates and exhorts them to do penance.The plot follows the lives of each girl, overshadowed by the crime and the mother's curse. The book is a tour de force of engrossing storytelling involving four life stories, four very different personalities, misunderstandings all around, and a shocking solution to little Emily's murder.Although the amount of violence and death unfolding chapter by chapter taxed my credulity, still I was riveted. Kanae Minato has a way of keeping the story flowing so absorbingly, that there's no escape for the characters or the reader. Minato has a positive genius, too, for conveying raw, uncensored emotions in a natural voice.I think the translation must be very good to make the first-person narratives of the characters sound so colloquial and convincingly personal.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Little twists and turns
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2019*

What I love most about Minato’s writing are the little twists and turns that keep me guessing until the very end. She is masterful at attacking a story from many points of view without it feeling boring or redundant. I will say that I liked her first translated book a little more. Confessions had me on the edge of my seat from start to finish whereas Penance had more subtle/quiet moments. It was still an enjoyable ride that has left me eagerly awaiting another book by her!

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