Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
- Vanishing World
- Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
- Page: 240
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780802164667
- Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Notes From Your Bookseller Equal parts hauntingly realistic and strikingly speculative, this dark and imaginative tale is full of social commentary. With just the right amount of discomfort to rattle readers in the right ways, it will get you thinking. From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination Sayaka Murata has proven herself to be one of the most exciting chroniclers of the strangeness of society, x-raying our contemporary world to bizarre and troubling effect. Her depictions of a happily unmarried retail worker in Convenience Store Woman and a young woman convinced she is an alien in Earthlings have endeared her to millions of readers worldwide. Vanishing World takes Murata’s universe to a bold new level, imagining an alternative Japan where attitudes to sex and procreation are wildly different to our own. As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents “copulated” in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange “system” by her mother, but her infatuations with both anime characters and real people have a sexual force that is undeniable. As an adult in an appropriately sexless marriage—sex between married couples is now considered as taboo as incest—Amane and her husband Saku decide to go and live in a mysterious new town called Experiment City or Paradise-Eden, where all children are raised communally, and every person is considered a Mother to all children. Men are beginning to become pregnant using artificial wombs that sit outside of their bodies like balloons, and children are nameless, called only “Kodomo-chan.” Is this the new world that will purify Amane of her strangeness once and for all?
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Vanishing World takes Murata's universe to a bold new level, imagining an alternative Japan where attitudes to sex and procreation are wildly .
Summary and Reviews of Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata
In her novel Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata presents an alternate version of the present, in which most children are conceived either via .
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The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal life.
Vanishing World (Hardcover) | King's Books
As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents "copulated" in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became .
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Murata crafts a sense of quiet unease; her matter-of-fact prose, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori, barely belies the .
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Vanishing World ; Broadway Books - 4 on hand, as of Apr 28 6:52am ; About the Author. SAYAKA MURATA is the author of many books, including .