It profoundly questions adult authority in general, in particular the mother-child relationship and the teacher-student relationship. I don’t want to give too much away, but this is not your garden-variety adolescent fantasy about how stupid grownups are. I do feel kind of conflicted about it, especially since an adult perspective dominates the work. How do you personally feel about 12-18–year-olds, the age range cited by the Alex Award, reading the book? I couldn’t put it down! But I found it pretty jarring myself.Įven so, one could regard the novel as rather mild by today’s standards in any case, it certainly deals with social issues that young people commonly struggle with in post-industrial cultures: bullying, identity formation, parental neglect/abandonment, academic pressure, and so on.īut it’s an unrelentingly grim tale and not one of several key characters come out looking good. Yes, surprised it’s a pretty shocking book for someone of my generation.
The award was “created to recognize that many teens enjoy and often prefer books written for adults, and to assist librarians in recommending adult books that appeal to teens.” Were you surprised to hear of the award? He responded to this interview by Skype.Ĭongratulations on the Alex Award for your translation of Kanae Minato’s Confessions. Stephen Snyder translated Kanae Minato’s novella Confessions, winner of a 2015 Alex Award.
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