Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori [in Booklist]
22 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
Akutagawa Prize-winning Sayaka Murata (Convenience Store Woman, 2018), with her lauded, chosen translator Ginny Tapley Takemori – two short stories and now two novels thus far – returns for more societally defiant, shockingly disconnected, disturbingly satisfying fiction. At 11, Natsuki is already aware she doesn’t fit...