Earthlings
Oct 2020 · Granta Books
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A darkly wild novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Convenience Store Woman.
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?
'Intimate, deadpan, and unflinchingly unhinged' Wired
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?
'Intimate, deadpan, and unflinchingly unhinged' Wired
A darkly wild novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Convenience Store Woman.
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...
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23 reviews
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July 1, 2024
I have no words to explain what I feel towards this book. But it's definitely an experience. I enjoy the emotional rollercoaster this books put me in. There are few parts that makes me flinch or even needs to lay down for a moment. But nonetheless, a masterpiece I think
Gemma Hayes
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February 18, 2023
was an odd book.
Helmut Lange
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July 22, 2025
Herausragender Roman, der lange nachwirkt.
About the author
A bestselling literary sensation, SAYAKA MURATA has won all of Japan's major literary prizes, and been named a Vogue Woman of the Year. Murata spent eighteen years working part-time in convenience stores before the success of Convenience Store Woman afforded her the freedom to leave and write full time. Convenience Store Woman has sold more than a million copies in Japan alone and is being translated into twenty-three languages worldwide.
A bestselling literary sensation, SAYAKA MURATA has won all of Japan's major literary prizes, and been named a Vogue Woman of the Year. Murata spent eighteen years working part-time in convenience stores before the success of Convenience Store Woman afforded her the freedom to leave and write ful...
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