Battle Royale
by Koushun Takami
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Author: Koushun TakamiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-02-26
ISBN: 156931778X
Number of pages: 624
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
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Book Review: Would you kill your best friend?
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is based in the near future japan,A world where the japanese won the second world war.The Japanesse teens are mass boycotting school and are begining to be more than rebelious and hard to control.The government are fearing the young and pass the "educational reformation act" aka BR act.This law means that every year a randomly picked form group from a year 10(ninth grade)are picked to fight amunst themselves for 3 days and there can only be one winner, do you treat life as a game? would you kill your best friend? what would you do,on an island where nothing is against the rules?This book details the characters and story behind each student and includes a moral and political value to this wicked and thrilling tale,It is beautifully translated from the original Japanese Novel and is bound to set your imagination and heart wild with anticipation.
Overall this book is top rate,not to be overlooked,a fantastic read and the author brings about his views and ideas of this near future brillantly.
Also check out the controversal movie battle royale.
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