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Earthlings

Availability: Out of Stock
ISBN: 9781783785698
AuthorMurata, Sayaka
Pub Date01/07/2021
BindingPaperback
Pages256
CountryGBR
Dewey895.636
Publisher: Granta Books
Quick overview Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself?
€11.62

Mind-blowing, twisted and wildly entertaining, Earthlings asks: how far would you go just to be yourself?

As a child, Natsuki believed she was an alien, a different species to her earthling family and classmates. She hoped a spaceship would come down and take her home. Now, she lives quietly in an asexual marriage, pretending to be normal.

But the buried horrors of Natsuki's past are pursuing her. As she flees the suburbs for the Nagano mountains and a reunion with her beloved cousin Yuu, she wonders, what will it take to escape the earthlings?

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Mind-blowing, twisted and wildly entertaining, Earthlings asks: how far would you go just to be yourself?

As a child, Natsuki believed she was an alien, a different species to her earthling family and classmates. She hoped a spaceship would come down and take her home. Now, she lives quietly in an asexual marriage, pretending to be normal.

But the buried horrors of Natsuki's past are pursuing her. As she flees the suburbs for the Nagano mountains and a reunion with her beloved cousin Yuu, she wonders, what will it take to escape the earthlings?

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