I loved this book! It easily converted me to being an alien. A radical, hilarious, heartbreaking look at the crap we have all internalized in order to fit in and survive

- Elif Batuman,

A firecracker of a book...the story skates along the top of all this darkness, and shimmers with a deadpan wit. I loved it

Five Books

A darkly wild novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Convenience Store Woman How far would you go just to be yourself? As a child, Natsuki believed she was an alien, a different species to her earthling family and classmates. She hoped a spaceship would come down and take her home. Now, she lives quietly in an asexual marriage, pretending to be normal. But the buried horrors of Natsuki's past are pursuing her. As she flees the suburbs for the Nagano mountains and a reunion with her beloved cousin Yuu, she wonders, what will it take to escape the earthlings? 'Intimate, deadpan, and unflinchingly unhinged' Wired
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Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller <i>Convenience Store Woman</i> - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself?
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?

Product details

ISBN
9781783785698
Published
2021-07-01
Publisher
Granta Books; Granta Books
Weight
183 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
256

Biographical note

A bestselling literary sensation, SAYAKA MURATA has won all of Japan's major literary prizes, and been named a Vogue Woman of the Year. Murata spent eighteen years working part-time in convenience stores before the success of Convenience Store Woman afforded her the freedom to leave and write full time. Convenience Store Woman has sold more than a million copies in Japan alone and is being translated into twenty-three languages worldwide.