Vanishing World

From the author of the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman, a convention-defying and taboo-busting novel, and a radically reimagined vision of sex, family and society.

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: Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translation), Tapley Takemori Ginny (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 12.03.2026
• EAN: 9781803511191
• ISBN: 978-1-80351-119-1
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Dystopian, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family