Life ceremony : stories
Murata, Sayaka, 1979-2022
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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.
Main title:
Life ceremony : stories / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Author:
Murata, Sayaka, 1979-, authorTakemori, Ginny Tapley, translator
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2022.
Collation:
266 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
This translation originally published: New York: Grove Press.
ISBN:
9781783787371 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
1193448