num_pages: 468
description: Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian kills seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin's upbringing. For this powerful, shocking novel, Lionel Shriver was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction. ~from the back cover
language: English
title: We Need to Talk About Kevin
titlecomplete: We Need to Talk About Kevin
characters: Eva Khatchadourian, Franklin Plaskett, Celia Khatchadourian, Kevin Khatchadourian
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller, Book Club, Drama, Psychology, Horror, Adult, Contemporary, Crime
ratings_count: 190660
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Serpent's Tail