Published: 2018 (Shinchosa) Setting: 1990’s and 2010’s Tokyo and rural Nagano Summary: In Murata’s second novel to be widely-translated, Earthlings, an idiosyncratic young girl named Natsuki confronts childhood trauma in an unorthodox and revealing manner, ultimately ending in total detachment from human “Earthlings,” and their society at large, twenty years later. Natsuki, unfit to be in her normalContinue reading “Earthlings-Sayaka Murata”
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Convenience Store Woman-Sayaka Murata
Published: 2016 (Bungeishunju) Setting: Tokyo Summary: Keiko works at the Smile Convenience store in an office district, and it is what defines her. She has worked their eighteen years, and the rhythms of her life match the sound of the bell, the speech patterns of her coworkers, and the hours of her shift. Keiko hasContinue reading “Convenience Store Woman-Sayaka Murata”
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