Earthlings by Sayaka Murata & Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Brand: Black Cat
Product Description
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 thirtythree languages comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes she is an alien Sayaka Muratas Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years depicting the life of a thirtysixyearold clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now in Earthlings Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity in this brilliantly imaginative intense and absolutely unforgettable novel. As a child Natsuki doesnt fit in with her family. Her parents favor her sister and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who talks to her. He tells her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. One summer on vacation with her family and her cousin Yuu in her grandparents ramshackle wooden house in the mountains of Nagano Natsuki decides that she must be an alien which would explain why she cant seem to fit in like everyone else. Later as a grown woman living a quiet life with her asexual husband Natsuki is still pursued by dark shadows from her childhood and decides to flee the baby factory of society for good searching for answers about the vast and frightening mysteries of the universeanswers only Natsuki has the power to uncover. Dreamlike sometimes shocking and always strange and wonderful Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world and cements Sayaka Muratas status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe. show more
Condition : New
Author : Sayaka Murata Translated By Ginny Tapley Takemori
Weight : 346.8
Publisher : Black Cat
Language : English
EAN : 9780802157010
ISBN10 : 0802157017
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20191121
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 137.92 X 205.99 X 23.88mm