Vanishing World

"Normality is the creepiest madness there is..."

In our near-future world, children are solely conceived by artificial insemination. Even sex between married couples is viewed as taboo.

Amane's family is irregular. Her parents copulated to create her and hope that she too will find love and have a child with the person she marries. But Amane falls in line with society's way of thinking and wants a regular 'clean' marriage. Then she hears of a place that is the subject of a social experiment. Everyone in Paradise-Eden will act as one big family. Could this be the perfect third way?

Praise for Sayaka Murata's fiction:
'Exhilarating, weird and funny' Sally Rooney
'Radical, hilarious, heartbeaking' Elif Batuman
'A gift to anyone who has ever felt at odds with the world' Ruth Ozeki

About the author

One of the most celebrated of the new generation of Japanese writers, Sayaka Murata has won not only the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, but the Gunzo, Noma, and Mishima Yukio Prizes as well. Her story, 'A Clean Marriage', was featured in Granta 127 Japan. She is 36-years-old and works part-time in a convenience store.Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated Ryu Murakami, Miyabe Miyuki, Akiyuki Nosaka, and Kyotaro Nishimura, among others. Her translation of Tomiko Inui's The Secret of the Blue Glass was shortlisted for the Marsh Award.

Product details

• Authors: Sayaka Murata
• Assisted by: Tapley Takemori Ginny (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2025
• EAN: 9781803511177
• ISBN: 978-1-80351-117-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 348 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Fiction in translation, Family life fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary