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Life Ceremony is Sayaka Murata’s first story collection to be translated into English and her most recently published fiction in Japanese. In Japan she is particularly known for her unique style and talent with the short story, and this volume will offer fresh delights and horrors to her rabid and ever-growing fanbase.We have approached the New Yorker for potential serial for one of the stories. Murata’s stories have previously appeared in Fre...

Life Ceremony is Sayaka Murata's first story collection to be translated into English and her most recently published fiction in Japanese. In Japan she is particularly known for her unique style and talent with the short story, and this volume will offer fresh delights and horrors to her rabid and ever-growing fanbase.We have approached the New Yorker for potential serial for one of the stories. Murata's stories have previously appeared in Fre...

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Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself?

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Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what.Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, s...

From the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into thirty-three languages, comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes she is an alien

In her brilliantly bizarre follow-up to Convenience Store Woman, which has sold over one million copies worldwide and charmed fans from Sally Rooney to Viet Thanh Nguyen, Sayaka Murata cements her status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and introduces a wonderful new misfit hero. As a child, Natsuki knows she doesn't belong in her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush hedgehog toy named Piyyut, w...

Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and sp...

Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married.But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store...

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