Life Ceremony

Life Ceremony

3.84

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From The Author Of International Bestseller Convenience Store Woman Comes A Collection Of Short Fiction: Weird, Out Of This World And Like Nothing You've Read Before. An Engaged Couple Falls Out Over The Husband's Dislike Of Clothes And Objects Made From Human Materials; A Young Girl Finds Herself Deeply Enamoured With The Curtain In Her Childhood Bedroom; People Honour Their Dead By Eating Them And Then Procreating. Published In English For The First Time, This Exclusive Edition Also Includes The Story That First Brought Sayaka Murata International Acclaim: 'a Clean Marriage', Which Tells The Story Of A Happily Asexual Couple Who Must Submit To Some Radical Medical Procedures If They Are To Conceive A Longed-for Child. Mixing Taboo-breaking Body Horror With Feminist Revenge Fables, Old Ladies Who Love Each Other And Young Women Finding Empathy And Transformation In Unlikely Places, Life Ceremony Is A Wild Ride To The Outer Edges Of One Of The Most Original Minds In Contemporary Fiction.
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4

Es ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten und jede ist natürlich auf ihre eigene Art und Weise super weird und absurd aber gleichzeitig auch so schön und sanft geschrieben, so wie man es eben von Sayaka Murata erwartet!!

5

You live in a society, i go out and eat the stuff growing on the side of the street - we are not the same. I like how Sayaka Murata can criticise society and make it entertaining af. Especially marriage and what it means to be different from the norm, and how that can and will change with time. Also a bit creepy and gory at times! I read earthlings and convenience store woman before reading the short story collection, but this is my favourite so far !

3

This was a wild ride. I found the different stories to be greatly differing in quality. While I enjoyed Two's Family, Eating the city and Hatchling, I didn't enjoy A summer night's kiss or A magnificent spread. As disturbing and weird as some of the stories were, I found myself invested in some characters despite the short time one spends with them. New concepts of love and family are established and mostly women-centered at that. Some stories I would rate 1*, others I would rate 5*. So I'm settling for the middle, 2,5*, which I'll round up to 3*.

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