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Biographical note
Sayaka Murata has won all of Japan's major literary prizes. She is author of Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings and Life Ceremony. Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated Ryu Murakami and Kyoko Nakajima, among others.'Makes the ordinary world as we see it look strange again... Publishers will continue to seek out imitations of [Sayaka's] vision - but why bother, when the real thing is so good?'
Financial Times
'In the imagination of Sayaka Murata, nothing seems to be off limits... Like The Handmaid's Tale on acid... Quintessentially Murata... Murata deploys both visceral language and body horror to convey Amane's lust.. An eye-popping plot... It invites us to consider how reproductive gender equality could transform society, with chilling ramifications'
New York Times
'Murata is a phenomenon... Vanishing World could not have arrived at a more fitting moment, given the Trump administrations' preoccupation with women's bodily autonomy... Murata's brilliantly unsettling ending will leave you reeling and questioning your own beliefs'
Stylist
'Japan's answer to Brave New World... Murata has the uncanny prescience of the best sci-fi writers'
Daily Telegraph
'Quirky and thought-provoking'
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