Name: Life Ceremony
Price: 13.34 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Sayaka Murata
ISBN: 9781783787388

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sayaka Murata

Publisher

Granta Books

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

266

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781783787388

Life Ceremony

Sayaka Murata (Author) · Granta Books · Paperback

Cheaper New Book Imported to Netherlands

Delivery: 30 Jun - 02 Jul

13,34 €

Faster New Book Imported to Netherlands

Delivery: 26 Jun - 29 Jun

13,70 €

Import costs and 9% BTW included in the price ✅

13,34 €

Add to Wishlist

Synopsis "Life Ceremony"

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.

Sayaka Murata

(Author)

View Author's Page

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.

See less