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I Want to Kick You in the Back by Risa Wataya, Julianne Neville (translation) is a ya fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A winner of Japan's prestigious Aktugawa Prize for rising literary talent, "I Want to Kick You in the Back" follows Hatsu, who is in her first year of high school & having a hard time fitting in with her classmates. She meets Ninagawa, an outcast who is obsessed with a model/pop idol but who has no interest in the actual girls around him. Gradually, Hatsu develops an impulse towards Ninagawa, not of love or infatuation, but one that can best be described as a desire to kick him in the back.This novella does a great job of exploring the ambivalent feelings of a teenager in search of a meaningful relationship.°°°‘We were leftovers,’ says Hasegawa Hatsumi of her & her enigmatic friend, Ninagawa Satoshi. ‘Every time our classmates laughed, we grew another year older.’Written by a nineteen year old student while she was still at university, the bestselling I Want to Kick You in the Back is a slim, deceptively simple tale about teenage life & love. It won Wataya Risa the biannual Akutagawa Prize in 2003, making her the youngest ever recipient of Japan’s most prestigious literary award. Skilfully translated by Julianne Neville, this is the first time Wataya has been made available to an E

Who reads I Want to Kick You in the Back?

Author

Risa Wataya, Julianne Neville (translation)

Publisher

One Peace Books, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781935548881

Category

ya fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Young Adult, World Fiction

Rating

3.26 / 5 (70 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14