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Brilliantly weird!
With men off fighting in World War II the world's governments started investing a lot of efforts into researching artificial insemination as a way to conti... READ MORE
Just when I think it can't get any weirder...
Sayaka Murata, she always manages to surprise me! Just when I think her books can't get any more peculiar, she brings out Vanishing World. I absolutely lov... READ MORE
A Brave (and Bizarre) New World
"Weird" is going to be the main descriptor for Vanishing World.. But would we expect any less from a Sayaka Murata novel?
Enter the strange dystopia of... READ MORE
An excellent oddity
As weird and wonderful as you would expect from Murata. If you are already a fan of Sayaka Murata’s body of work then you are going to adore this one. An a... READ MORE
No Family, No Love, No sex - What's Next?
Sayaka Murata has written a world that completely flips our way of thinking on its head. Everything normal becomes abnormal and vice versa.
A society i... READ MORE
wow!
Sayaka Murata has a way of making you feel uncomfortable whilst asking such difficult questions and this book is no exception! In a bizarre world where abn... READ MORE
Weird and Wonderful dystopian masterclass!
Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World is set to get its first English translation in April 2025. I was lucky enough to receive an early copy to review, and as a ... READ MORE
Fantastic.
Set in a world where marriage, love, and sex are separated and reinvented; this weird exploration of relationships, bodily urges, and fertility is brillian... READ MORE
Brave New World
Sayaka Murata is back with yet another strange and unique piece for us.
This time however, it’s a view of a world… Unsettlingly plausible.
We begin wit... READ MORE
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Amazing
I can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to this book.
Since Life Ceremony, I’ve been craving weird fiction that only Murata can create, and it’... READ MORE
Perfect
Everytime I read a Murata book, I think ‘she can’t possibly have done it again, not another masterpiece’. And everytime she proves me wrong.
Vanishing Wor... READ MORE
Brilliantly subversive!
With its deceptively simple prose, but deeply unsettling foundation, Vanishing World has an intensifying strangeness. The novel’s surreal territory pulls r... READ MORE
Wonderfully Weird
Sayaka Murata's work never fails to surprise me and ‘Vanishing World’ is certainly no exception!
Murata presents a futuristic Japan where sex is disappear... READ MORE
A bizarre new world
Vanishing World takes us to a society where sex is viewed as ‘copulation’, an out-dated and old fashioned, animalistic pursuit that humans now no longer ne... READ MORE
Classic Murata
'I was in a sex education class in the fourth year of elementary school when I discovered that I had been conceived by an abnormal method.'
Sometime in ... READ MORE
Bizarre, funny and unpredictable
This was likely the most bizarre book I've ever read. Murata has a remarkable ability to make you believe whatever she wants, forcing you to question what ... READ MORE
Doing What She Does Best
Vanishing World is Sayaka Murata's newest and arguably most divisive novel yet. Each of her books have prodded my mind with her often complex and nuanced i... READ MORE
Publisher information
- Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- ISBN: 9780802164667
- Number of pages: 240
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allA bold commentary on modern societal shifts
Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata is a provocative exploration of a dystopian society where traditional concepts of sex, love, and family are radically rede... READ MORE
Weird worlds within weird worlds, no weirder than our own
Murata returns with a visceral tale that extrapolates futures many times removed from our own, weird worlds within weird worlds, but no weirder than our ow... READ MORE
An absurd and frightening outlook
I picked up Vanishing World after reading and enjoying Convenience Store Woman. Sayaka Murata has a way of writing scathing allegories for current politica... READ MORE
A book that makes you think
What if all human conception was made by artificial insemination? That is the first question that Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World explores, but is far from... READ MORE
Disappointing
This was 4⭐ until the very ending, where it dropped to 1⭐. It didn't need to happen, for the whole book was already disturbing and I feel like it took away... READ MORE
Enter Sayaka Murata’s strange world
Vanishing World is a story set in a near-future where sex has become disgusting to most people and children are almost all created by artificial inseminati... READ MORE
Unique novel
This book was very different from anything that I have read before, I was hooked from the very first page and read it in one sitting. I found the author's ... READ MORE
Perfection…with a big helping of weird
Sayaka Murata is one of my favourite authors and I absolutely adored this book! Beautifully written and kept me reading way longer than I should have been!... READ MORE
Good Enough
Vanishing World' is a book by Sayaka Murata and it follows the same pattern as all of her stories, with the weird atmosphere, the disturbing plot, and the ... READ MORE
Not wild enough
My least favorite Murata so far. Still enjoyed reading it, even though I didn't really love the plot or the characters. The ending felt rushed and, for wha... READ MORE
Weird perhaps - but loved it!
This has sat in my towering piles of books to be read for far too long... so today it was rescued and I loved it.
Found it totally addictive, weird and th... READ MORE
Not for me
I enjoyed the start of this book and the plot seemed promising, however for me it quickly lost steam. At the start I liked Amane but as the book went on, I... READ MORE