Heaven
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Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
This novel takes off with a budding friendship between two teenagers who are badly bullied in school and suffer silently, but one day decide to sneak letters to each other. The book offers a warm and poignant contemplation of violence, nihilism, adolescence and friendship.
Pan Macmillan, Rs 699, 176 pages
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