My Annihilation

Fuminori Nakamura

Jan 2022 · RB Media · Narrated by Brian Nishii

About this audiobook

What transforms a person into a killer? Could it be something as small as a suggestion?

Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.

With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime. Delving relentlessly into the darkest
corners of human consciousness, My Annihilation interrogates the unspeakable thoughts all humans share that can be monstrous when brought to life, revealing with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.

About the author

Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. His first novel, A Gun, won the 2002 Shinch? Literary Prize for New Writers. His other books include Shade, which won the Noma Literary Prize in 2004, The Boy in the Earth, which won the 2005 Akutagawa Prize, The Thief, which won the 2010 Oe Prize, and Last Winter We Parted.