EAN: 9781783787388

LIFE CEREMONY - SAYAKA MURATA KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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