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With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always imbued with an otherworldly imagination and uncanniness.In these twelve stories, Murata mixes an unusual cocktail of humor and horror to portray both the loners and outcasts as well as turning the norms and traditions of society on their head to better question them. Whether the stories take place in modern-day Japan, the future, or an alternate reality is left to the reader?s interpretation, as the characters often seem strange in their normality in a frighteningly abnormal world. In ?A First-Rate Material?, Nana and Naoki are happily engaged, but Naoki can?t stand the conventional use of deceased people?s bodies for clothing, accessories, and furniture, and a disagreement around this threatens to derail their perfect wedding

Author : Sayaka Murata

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ISBN-10 : 9780802161345

ISBN-13 : 9780802161345