Sayaka Murata

Ginny Tapley Takemori  (Translator)

Vanishing World

thanks to her ability to examine and push societal taboos—her clarity is so refreshing and thought-provoking—as well as her humor and unique voice, sayaka murata is one of my favorite living writers. as i love her short story "a clean marriage," i was excited to read the premise of this one, and she delivered! maybe i need to read more sex scenes, but i have never seen another writer write sex scenes the way murata does in this book. however, some of the pacing in part 2 flagged a bit and hurt the story for me; while 

 executes the characters' descent from 0–100 perfectly, amane's leaps feel a bit disjointed. that being said, the ending—murata's second best after 

, imo—sticks the landing in a memorable, well-crafted way.

alice

thanks to her ability to examine and push societal taboos—her clarity is so refreshing and thought-provoking—as well as her humor and unique voice, sayaka murata is one of my favorite living writers. as i love her short story "a clean marriage," i was excited to read the premise of this one, and she delivered! maybe i need to read more sex scenes, but i have never seen another writer write sex scenes the way murata does in this book. however, some of the pacing in part 2 flagged a bit and hurt the story for me; while earthlings executes the characters' descent from 0–100 perfectly, amane's leaps feel a bit disjointed. that being said, the ending—murata's second best after earthlings, imo—sticks the landing in a memorable, well-crafted way.

This is like slice of life but insane and fucked up. From the get go I loved the premise--we follow Amane, a very sexual person, living in a world where sex doesn't exist. What happens to marriage, to having children?

There's always this "what the actual fuck" factor in Sayaka Murata's books which I adore so much. Gusto ko yung mga taong may saltik. 

Listened through an Audiobook and Nancy Wu was great! It was so.. Robotic? Which was so perfect for this book. 

Rain Luciano

This is like slice of life but insane and fucked up. From the get go I loved the premise--we follow Amane, a very sexual person, living in a world where sex doesn't exist. What happens to marriage, to having children?

There's always this "what the actual fuck" factor in Sayaka Murata's books which I adore so much. Gusto ko yung mga taong may saltik. 

Listened through an Audiobook and Nancy Wu was great! It was so.. Robotic? Which was so perfect for this book. 

A big wtf moment. The writing itself was nice, the plot's fresh and intriguing. THE ENDING however fucked me up.

Vanishing World

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