e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
More Content
More by this author
Takami, Kōshun.
Subjects
Reality television programs -- Japan -- Fiction.
Junior high school students -- Japan -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Takami, Kōshun.
by title:
Battle royale : rema...
Batoru rowaiaru. Eng...
by call number:
FICTION TAK
Search the Web
Takami, Kōshun.
Reality television programs -- Japan -- Fiction.
Junior high school students -- Japan -- Fiction.
MARC Display
Battle royale : remastered / written by Koushun Takami ; a new translation by Nathan Collins.
by
Takami, Kōshun.
Haikasoru, 2014.
Call #:
FICTION
TAK
Subjects
Reality television programs
--
Japan
--
Fiction
.
Junior
high
school
students
--
Japan
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781421565989 (pbk.)
Uniform title:
Batoru rowaiaru. English.
Edition:
Remastered ed.
Description:
647 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Translation from the Japanese of: Batoru rowaiaru.
Includes afterword to the 2009 edition.
Map on endpaper.
Summary:
"Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of
junior
high
school
students
is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when ?rst published in Japan--where it became a runaway best seller--Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world"--From publisher.
Genre:
Allegories.
Science
fiction
.
Suspense
fiction
.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Alderney Gate Public Library
Young Adult Fiction
FICTION TAK
Ya Books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.