13-04-2025
'Vanishing World': Sayaka Murata's vision of a sex-hating society
From the author who brought you 'woman who's one with a convenience store' and 'woman who's sure she's an alien,' comes a brand new dystopian adventure — 'woman with 40 imaginary lovers.'
Sayaka Murata has gained a cult following for speculative stories that start with familiar domestic scenes and spiral out to wild and outlandish conclusions. Her novel 'Convenience Store Woman,' about an oddball 30-something-year-old woman with few aspirations beyond her part-time konbini job, was a smash hit, earning her mainstream success in Japan and abroad. Her 2015 novel, 'Vanishing World,' released in English on April 15 with translations by Ginny Tapley Takemori, is a loose salad of thought experiments that lean toward sci-fi.
Vanishing World, by Sayaka Murata. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. 240 pages, GROVE ATLANTIC, fiction.
