We Need to Talk About Kevin
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| Author | Lionel Shriver |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Epistolary novel |
| Publisher | Counterpoint Press |
Publication date | April 14, 2003 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback and hardback) |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 1-58243-267-8 |
| OCLC | 50948454 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.H742 W4 2003 |
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, first 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 emotionally detached 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 (now the Women's Prize For Fiction.) In 2011 the novel was adapted into a film.