Earthlings (First Edition)

Murata, Sayaka

ISBN 10: 0802157009 / ISBN 13: 9780802157003

Editore: Grove Press, New York, 2020

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New York, Grove, 2020. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($26.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A novel, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Takemori.

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• Titolo: Earthlings (First Edition)
• Editore: Grove Press, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0802157009
• ISBN 13: 9780802157003
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Japanese Literature

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Riassunto

From the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into thirty-three languages, comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes she is an alien

Sayaka Muratas Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity in this brilliantly imaginative, intense, and absolutely unforgettable novel.

As a child, Natsuki doesnt fit in with her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who talks to her. He tells her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. One summer, on vacation with her family and her cousin Yuu in her grandparents ramshackle wooden house in the mountains of Nagano, Natsuki decides that she must be an alien, which would explain why she cant seem to fit in like everyone else. Later, as a grown woman, living a quiet life with her asexual husband, Natsuki is still pursued by dark shadows from her childhood, and decides to flee the baby factory of society for good, searching for answers about the vast and frightening mysteries of the universeanswers only Natsuki has the power to uncover.

Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world, and cements Sayaka Muratas status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe.

Informazioni sull?autore

Sayaka Murata is the author of many books, including Convenience Store Woman, winner of the Akutagawa Prize. Murata has been named a Freemans Future of New Writing author, and a Vogue Japan Woman of the Year.

Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated works by more than a dozen Japanese writers, including Ryu Murakami. She lives at the foot of a mountain in Eastern Japan.