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I love translated thrillers!!!! I love poetic justice!! I love horrible misunderstandings and bizarre symmetry of fate!! I love characters so traumatized that they re-enact the trauma years later in mysterious ways (ok that last bit is specific to The Sinner but my point stands).
Penance follows four girls who witness the abduction and off-screen murder of a fifth. When they realize what happens, they separate - stay with the body, find a teacher, find a police man, get the dead girl's mother. The story is told through letters, one from each of the four girls, relaying what happened that day and in subsequent years, up until the statute of limitations on murder (15 years) ran out.
Recommended highly if you enjoy twisted dark well-written thrillers, character studies of broken people who lash out, and want to read more translated fiction.
More thoughts here: https://youtu.be/iNUD3wZlu7w
Penance follows four girls who witness the abduction and off-screen murder of a fifth. When they realize what happens, they separate - stay with the body, find a teacher, find a police man, get the dead girl's mother. The story is told through letters, one from each of the four girls, relaying what happened that day and in subsequent years, up until the statute of limitations on murder (15 years) ran out.
Recommended highly if you enjoy twisted dark well-written thrillers, character studies of broken people who lash out, and want to read more translated fiction.
More thoughts here: https://youtu.be/iNUD3wZlu7w