
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami is a gripping and brutal dystopian thriller set in an alternate totalitarian Japan. Every year, a ninth-grade class is randomly chosen to participate in a horrifying government program: they are taken to a remote island and forced to fight each other to the death until only one student remains. As classmates and friends turn against each other in a desperate bid for survival, alliances form and crumble, revealing the darkest depths of human nature in this provocative and intense exploration of violence and morality.
List of Battle Royale Books
Battle Royale: The Novel |
1999 |