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Life Ceremony

Life Ceremony

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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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Gareth Cummings
Liked it.

Good read for sure .Very unusual and very unique. Very different prespective

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Owen Neale
Thought-provoking short stories

This is a weird book. Every reader will have a "what the f*" reaction when reading most of the stories, but that is not a bad thing. In my anthropology classes it was often said that the process of understanding cultures is a matter of un-stranging the strange (sorry for the likely poor translation), and this book offers plenty of mind-boggling episodes to reflect upon. They're not hard to read also, so it's possible to read it for entertainment just as well.