"Japans Superstar Sayaka Murata ist zurück!
Ein überraschender Roman über sexuelle Begierde, künstliche Befruchtung und ein Leben außerhalb sozialer Normen
Amane stellt mit Entsetzen fest, dass ihre Eltern 'kopuliert' haben, um sie zu zeugen, anstatt wie alle anderen die Vorteile künstlicher Befruchtung zu nutzen. Auch wenn ihre Mutter an der alten Welt festhält und das Konzept Liebe verzweifelt verteidigt, will Amane dazugehören in einer Gesellschaft, in der Sex und Romantik fast ganz verschwunden sind. Mit ihrem Mann Saku zieht Amane in die experimentelle Stadt in Chiba, wo auch Männer Kinder in künstlichen Gebärmüttern austragen und sich alle Menschen gleichermaßen um alle Kinder kümmern. Ist das die schöne neue Welt, nach der Amane sich gesehnt hat?
'Heiter, schräg und on point.' Sally Rooney"
"Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm. Still, she can't help questioning what sex and marriage are for.
But when Amane and her husband hear about Eden, an experimental town where residents are selected at random to be artificially inseminated en masse (including men who are fitted with artificial wombs), the family unit does not exist and children are raised collectively and anonymously, they decide to try living there. But can this bold experiment build the brave new world Amane desires, or will it push her to breaking point?"
"Natsuki isn't like the other girls. Together with her cousin Yuu, she spends her summers in the wild Nagano mountains, hoping a spaceship will take her home. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the cousins for ever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what.
Now, Natsuki is grown. She lives quietly in an asexual marriage, pretending to be normal, and hiding the horrors of her childhood from her family and friends. But dark shadows from Natsuki's past are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of Nagano, Natsuki prepares herself for a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?
A dark and magical reckoning with what it might take to survive a shattered life, Earthlings is an exhilarating cosmic flight that will leave you reeling."
"Der neue Roman nach dem Bestseller 'Die Ladenhüterin'
Der neue Roman von Japans Erfolgsautorin Sayaka Murata erzählt die Geschichte zweier Außenseiter, Natsuki und ihr Cousin Yu, die sich jung verlieben und gemeinsam gegen eine Welt verbünden, die ihnen beileibe nicht nur Gutes will. Im alten Farmhaus der Familie, in dem früher die Seidenraupen ihren Dienst verrichteten, sind sie glücklich, denn sie sind beieinander. 20 Jahre später geht Natsuki an diesen Ort zurück ...
Die Magie dieses Romans spinnt uns ein in einen irisierenden Kokon der Fremdheit und entlässt uns schließlich in eine Realität, in der alles möglich ist."
"Meet Keiko.
Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.
Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married.
But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store...
'Witty, wily, and astonishingly sharp' Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies
'An exhilaratingly weird and funny Japanese novel.. Unsettling and totally unpredictable' Sally Rooney
'A haunting, dark, and often hilarious take on society's expectations of the single woman' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot
'[A] short, deadpan gem... This is a true original' Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail
'From this slight, dark and delightful book springs a feminist rallying cry: trust yourself' Emerald Street
'A sure-fire hit of the summer... quirky [and] profound' Irish Times
'An offbeat, tongue-in-cheek read... a tale of finding one's own path to happiness' Skinny"
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