Fuminori Nakamura is as brutally honest in person as he is in his prose.

¡°If I had never stumbled across fiction, I think my life would have been completely different. I might not even be alive right now,¡± the author says while discussing ¡°My Annihilation,¡± the latest of his novels to be translated into English. ¡°What saved me at that difficult time were novels that portrayed the dark side of human existence. I could carry on ¡ª the novels showed me that everyone has problems, so living is possible.¡±

My Annihilation, by Fuminori NakamuraTranslated by Sam Bett264 pagesSOHO CRIME