Innocent World

By Ami Sakurai

Book Overview

Enter a world of nihilism and self destruction. Enter a world of rape, incest, and trauma. Enter a world of violence, drugs, and prostitution. Enter an Innocent World . Ami believes in nothing, hopes for nothing, and turns tricks because it's something to do. Her journey from the pit of despair to the precarious edge of something else captures the part of being seventeen that never makes it into words.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932234144
• ISBN13: 9781932234145
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Vertical
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

f**k the rest...

The horrid reviews stated on here might as well duplicate the relentless gang rape scene of the book. I don't care what anyone says, this book is a sublime read, every word, from start to finish. My only serious disappointment was that I did not ration myself better and finished it too quickly. If I didn't have Hillary Raphael's "I (heart) Lord Buddha" to act as methadone, I don't know how I would have handled the withdrawals from such a white-hot stellar piece of work.

Not so Innocent

The story of a young woman who has lost her family identity and has replaced it with prostitution and a loose association of friends who convinced her to join the prostitution ring. She sublimates her emotional connections with her mentally handicapped brother Takyura. The only way she can connect with Takyura is through sex. This book is witten with such dispassion that it seems that it could be read as non-fiction. I highly recommend this dark novella.

Twisted sensuality

It was rather bizaar how i found myself strangely aroused throughout this book...Yeah yeah i know she made Love to her brother and biological father but it had a sense of nessesity for them to connect. If you read this book and was disguished i request that you pick it back up with an open mind...If you are looking at this review and deciding whether or not you want to buy this book...stand forewarned...you much keep your mind open and your own judgements closed...

Distortion LOVE

That's wonderful!! This is the best translation Japanese novel. I have never met great translation like this before. I really appreciate this book. The story is about distortion love, but it is very beautiful feeling and love. So good. I am touched this book.

short and sweet

a little whack, but so much deeper and more intelligently written than other books of this ilk.