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.
Publisher: Granta BooksISBN: 9781783787388Number of pages: 272Weight: 190 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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'These stories laid complete claim to me. Ominous and charming. Brilliantly sad. There is not one word wasted here. I lost significant sleep over this collection.'- Kiley Reid,author of Such a Fun Age
'Undoubtedly shocking... unnerving... bizarre and outrageous... Life Ceremony reminds us how fragile we - and the society we take for granted - really are.'- New Internationalist
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