Earthlings by Sayaka Murata - ISBN: 9781783785698
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Girl with magic wand flees past, seeks childhood promise with cousin.
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    256 pages

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    19 October 2021

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Summary

Natsuki isn’t like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what.

Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, surviving as best she can by pretending to…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781783785698
ISBN-10:1783785691
Author:Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
Publisher:Granta Books
Imprint:Granta Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:19 October 2021
Weight:183g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 15mm
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Critics Review

I loved this book! It easily converted me to being an alien. A radical, hilarious, heartbreaking look at the crap we have all internalized in order to fit in and survive – Elif Batuman
A firecracker of a book…the story skates along the top of all this darkness, and shimmers with a deadpan wit. I loved it * Five Books *

About The Author

Sayaka Murata

SAYAKA MURATA is a bestselling literary sensation who 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.

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