We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2003)
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver , published by Serpent's Tail , about a fictional school massacre . It is written from the first person perspective of the teenage killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her psychopathic son Kevin and the murders he committed, as told in a series of letters from Eva to her husband. The novel, Shriver's seventh, won the 2005 Orange Prize , a UK-based prize for female authors of any country writing in English. In 2011 the novel was adapted into a film .
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