Idol, Burning
- 3 Aug 2023
- 9781838856137
- £9.99
- 144 pp
- 129×198mm
- 3 Nov 2022
- 9781838856144
- £7.99
- 144 pp
- 3 Nov 2022
- 9781838856151
- £20.99
- 3 hrs 11 min
In a few words
A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon – about obsession, pop culture and fandom
In a few words
A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon – about obsession, pop culture and fandom
In a few words
A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon – about obsession, pop culture and fandom. Winner of the 2020 Akutagawa Prize and 500,000 copies sold!
Usami so successfully depicts the consequences of pure obsession
[Idol, Burning] cracked a door open into an intense world of obsession . . . essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what it is like to be a teenage girl, where priorities are skewed, emotions are high, and everything feels like it's life or death
Catherine Prasifka
Usami so successfully depicts the consequences of pure obsession
[Idol, Burning] cracked a door open into an intense world of obsession . . . essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what it is like to be a teenage girl, where priorities are skewed, emotions are high, and everything feels like it's life or death
Catherine Prasifka
Usami so successfully depicts the consequences of pure obsession
[Idol, Burning] cracked a door open into an intense world of obsession . . . essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what it is like to be a teenage girl, where priorities are skewed, emotions are high, and everything feels like it's life or death
Catherine Prasifka
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WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE
‘Usami so successfully depicts the consequences of pure obsession’ Guardian
‘Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what it is like to be a teenage girl’ Catherine Prasifka
High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is Masaki Ueno, best known as one-fifth of Japanese pop group Maza Maza. Akari’s dedication to her oshi consumes her days completely – until he disgraces himself and Akari’s world goes into a tailspin.
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WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE
‘Usami so successfully depicts the consequences of pure obsession’ Guardian
‘Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what it is like to be a teenage girl’ Catherine Prasifka
High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is Masaki Ueno, best known as one-fifth of Japanese pop group Maza Maza. Akari’s dedication to her oshi consumes her days completely – until he disgraces himself and Akari’s world goes into a tailspin.
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2020 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE
‘My oshi was on fire. Word was he’d punched a fan’
High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is Masaki Ueno, best known as one-fifth of Japanese pop group Maza Maza.
Akari’s dedication to her oshi consumes her days completely. She keeps a blog entirely devoted to him, religiously chronicling and analysing all his events. He is the spine of her life; she cannot survive without him. When Masaki is rumoured to have assaulted a female fan, facing waves of social media backlash, Akari’s world falls apart.
Offering a vivid insight into otaku culture and adolescence, Idol, Burning is a brilliantly gripping story of obsession, coming of age and the addictive, relentless nature of fandom culture.
A vivid depiction of the joys and despairs of teenage fan culture, Idol, Burning is urgent and all-consuming . . . In this passionate and compassionate novel, the voice of teenage desperation sings out
Katie Hale
A short but mighty novel that sheds a light on the world of superfans, obsession and the dangers of building your identity around a phenomenon that can disappear in a second . . . Usami’s novel lifts the lid on the unique world of fandom and ‘stan’ culture in Japan
Compelling and unsettling in equal measure, Idol, Burning is a pitch-perfect insight into how confusing and exhausting modern life can feel to young women today
Idol, Burning is a window into the world of teenage obsession and the dark places it can venture to . . . This is like nothing else I've read
A vivid depiction of the joys and despairs of teenage fan culture, Idol, Burning is urgent and all-consuming . . . In this passionate and compassionate novel, the voice of teenage desperation sings out
Katie Hale
A short but mighty novel that sheds a light on the world of superfans, obsession and the dangers of building your identity around a phenomenon that can disappear in a second . . . Usami’s novel lifts the lid on the unique world of fandom and ‘stan’ culture in Japan
Compelling and unsettling in equal measure, Idol, Burning is a pitch-perfect insight into how confusing and exhausting modern life can feel to young women today.
Idol, Burning is a window into the world of teenage obsession and the dark places it can venture to . . . This is like nothing else I've read
A vivid depiction of the joys and despairs of teenage fan culture, Idol, Burning is urgent and all-consuming . . . In this passionate and compassionate novel, the voice of teenage desperation sings out
Katie Hale
A short but mighty novel that sheds a light on the world of superfans, obsession and the dangers of building your identity around a phenomenon that can disappear in a second . . . Usami’s novel lifts the lid on the unique world of fandom and ‘stan’ culture in Japan
Compelling and unsettling in equal measure, Idol, Burning is a pitch-perfect insight into how confusing and exhausting modern life can feel to young women today.
Idol, Burning is a window into the world of teenage obsession and the dark places it can venture to . . . This is like nothing else I've read
