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Earthlings / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

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Record Number 839270
ISBN 9781783786688 (paperback)
Author Murata, Sayaka, 1979- author.
Title Earthlings / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Publisher/Date London : Granta Books, 2020.
©2020
Pagination etc. 247 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary Note This novel asks: how far would you go just to be yourself? Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what. Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, surviving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsuki's family are increasing, her friends wonder why she's still not pregnant, and dark shadows from Natsuki's childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?
Language note Translated from the Japanese.
Subject Cousins -- Fiction
Children -- Fiction
Survival -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction
Promises -- Fiction
Conformity -- Fiction
Young women -- Fiction
Japanese fiction -- Translations into English
Added Author Takemori, Ginny Tapley translator.
Shelf Location F MURA
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