From the author who brought you ¡°woman who¡¯s one with a convenience store¡± and ¡°woman who¡¯s sure she¡¯s an alien,¡± comes a brand new dystopian adventure ¡ª ¡°woman with 40 imaginary lovers.¡±
Sayaka Murata has gained a cult following for speculative stories that start with familiar domestic scenes and spiral out to wild and outlandish conclusions. Her novel ¡°Convenience Store Woman,¡± about an oddball 30-something-year-old woman with few aspirations beyond her part-time konbini job, was a smash hit, earning her mainstream success in Japan and abroad. Her 2015 novel, ¡°Vanishing World,¡± released in English on April 15 with translations by Ginny Tapley Takemori, is a loose salad of thought experiments that lean toward sci-fi.
Vanishing World, by Sayaka Murata. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. 240 pages, GROVE ATLANTIC, fiction.
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