Life ceremony : stories
Murata, Sayaka, 1979-2023
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From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of weird, out of this world short fiction. 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 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 child. Mixing taboo-breaking body horror with feminist revenge fables, Life Ceremony is a wild ride to the outer edges of one of the most original minds in contemporary fiction.
Main title:
Life ceremony : stories / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2023.London : Granta, 2023.
Collation:
266 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
This translation originally published: New York: Grove Press.This translation originally published: New York: Grove Press, 2022.
ISBN:
9781783787388 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
2799954