It is the first time for Kaname Minato to write a school novel. Machida Keisuke lost his dream when he missed a national tournament. He is invited into the school's boardcasting department and reaimed a nationalwide high school boardcasting contest. However, conflicts broke out in the department. Does he give up his dream again?
Kanae MINATO (湊 かなえ, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller.
She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions (告白, Kokuhaku) became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. The movie Confession directed by Tetsuya Nakashima was nominated to 2011 Academy Award.
She has been described in Japan as "the queen of iyamisu"(eww mystery), a subgenre of mystery fiction which deals with grisly episodes and the dark side of human nature.
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." (Alexander Graham Bell)