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Life Ceremony

English · Paperback / Softback

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From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before.An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their dead by eating them and then procreating. Published in English for the first time, this exclusive edition also includes the story that first brought Sayaka Murata international acclaim: 'A Clean Marriage', which tells the story of a happily asexual couple who must submit to some radical medical procedures if they are to conceive a longed-for child.Mixing taboo-breaking body horror with feminist revenge fables, old ladies who love each other and young women finding empathy and transformation in unlikely places, Life Ceremony is a wild ride to the outer edges of one of the most original minds in contemporary fiction.

Product details

Authors Sayaka Murata
Assisted by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translation)
Publisher Granta Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.07.2022
 
EAN 9781783787371
ISBN 978-1-78378-737-1
No. of pages 266
Dimensions 137 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)

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