Rin is twenty-two, with a troubled adolescence behind her. She is flying back from her honeymoon, madly in love with her husband, Shin, and the future looks rosy. Then Shin disappears to the bathroom while he thinks Rin is sleeping and she starts to imagine that he has gone to seduce the flight attendant. As her thoughts spiral out of control the phrase 'madly in love' takes on a more sinister meaning.
Prizewinning author Hitomi Kanehara's sensational new novel, "Autofiction", follows Rin's life backwards through time from this moment so that we see her when she is eighteen, sixteen and finally fifteen, and a picture of the dark heart and violent past of this disturbed young woman gradually develops.
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A raw, unsettling psychological novel that explores the blurred lines between reality, memory, and trauma. The story follows Rin, a young woman living in Tokyo who is deeply haunted by the sudden, tragic death of her high school friend. Struggling to process her grief and guilt, Rin spirals into a destructive loop of substance abuse, toxic relationships, and self-harm. As she attempts to navigate her fractured everyday life, her grip on what is real begins to slip.
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