Name: Earthlings
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Author: Sayaka Murata
ISBN: 9781783785698

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Sayaka Murata

Publisher

Granta Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19 x 12 cm

ISBN13

9781783785698

Earthlings

Sayaka Murata (Author) · Granta Books · Paperback

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Synopsis "Earthlings"

Natsuki isn’t like the other girls. As youths, she and her cousin Yuu spent the summers in the wild Nagano mountains, hoping for a spaceship to transport her home. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the cousins for ever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what.

Now, Natsuki is grown. She lives quietly in an asexual marriage, pretending to be normal, and hiding the horrors of her childhood from her family and friends. But dark shadows from Natsuki’s past are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains, Natsuki prepares for a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it? Dark, sharp and with a deeply unexpected twist, Earthlings is an exhilarating cosmic flight that will leave you reeling.

Sayaka Murata

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She is one of the most interesting contemporary voices from Japan. Her work has appeared in the prestigious literary magazine Granta and in 2016 she was Woman of the Year according to Vogue. Her tenth novel, The Convenience Store Woman, marks her debut in the international market thanks to Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, which celebrates voices as significant as that of Nobel laureate Kenzaburō Ōe.

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