{"product_id":"battle-royale-by-koushun-takami","title":"Battle Royale by Koushun Takami","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn an alternative future Japan, junior high students are forced to fight to the death! L to R (Western Style). Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: 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 one another until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan--where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBattle Royale\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBattle Royale\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language. A group of high school students are taken to small isolated island and forced to fight each other until only one remains alive! If they break the rules a special collar blows their heads off. Koushun Takami's brutal, high-octane thriller is told in breathless. blow-by-blow fashion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBattle Royale\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a contemporary Japanese pulp classic now available for the first time in English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44577571766314,"sku":null,"price":630.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44577571799082,"sku":null,"price":760.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":44577571831850,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/5126\/8394\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_937be9e2-038c-44e6-ad1c-975ea829b0b4.jpg?v=1784056098","url":"https:\/\/bookycafebd.shop\/products\/battle-royale-by-koushun-takami","provider":"BookYcafe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}