Life Ceremony

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Life Ceremony is a striking collection of short stories from Sayaka Murata, the author behind the international hit Convenience Store Woman. These tales are bizarre, otherworldly, and unlike anything you've encountered before.

Exploring unconventional relationships, body horror, and transformative experiences through Murata’s unique storytelling.

This exclusive edition, published in English for the first time, brings together a series of strange and captivating narratives. One story follows an engaged couple whose relationship unravels due to the husband's aversion to clothing and objects made from human materials. Another centers on a young girl who becomes deeply attached to the curtain in her childhood bedroom. In a world where people honor their deceased by consuming them and then having children, Murata delves into themes of life and death with a surreal twist.

Included here is the acclaimed story "A Clean Marriage," which first earned Murata international recognition. It tells of a happily asexual couple willing to undergo radical medical procedures to conceive a child they long for. Throughout the collection, Murata blends elements of taboo-breaking body horror with feminist revenge tales, stories of elderly women who share love, and young women discovering empathy and transformation in unexpected places.

Life Ceremony is a wild journey into the far reaches of one of contemporary fiction’s most original voices.

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