Book review: Sayaka Murata builds a dystopian world of sexless marriages in Vanishing World
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In Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World, marriage is reduced to a platonic contract between man and woman.
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By Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Fiction/Granta Books/Paperback/233 pages/$26.95
Sayaka Murata, the Japanese author who has built a name for herself in making readers squirm through her absurdist and unsettling takes on societal norms, stays true to form in Vanishing World.
