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Sayaka Murata has won all of Japan's major literary prizes. She is author of Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings and Life Ceremony. Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated Ryu Murakami and Kyoko Nakajima, among others.Makes the ordinary world as we see it look strange again... Publishers will continue to seek out imitations of [Sayaka's] vision - but why bother, when the real thing is so good?
Financial Times
In the imagination of Sayaka Murata, nothing seems to be off limits... Like The Handmaid's Tale on acid
New York Times
Compulsive... A reminder of how quickly even the strangest ideas can become convention
Guardian
Japanese fiction leads a boom in translated novels and Murata is its queen... Fit to burst with eye-popping twists and conceits... A typically wild ride
Daily Mail
Murata is a phenomenon... Vanishing World could not have arrived at a more fitting moment, given the Trump administrations' preoccupation with women's bodily autonomy... Murata's brilliantly unsettling ending will leave you reeling and questioning your own beliefs
Stylist
Japan's answer to Brave New World... Murata has the uncanny prescience of the best sci-fi writers
Daily Telegraph
Quirky and thought-provoking
Grazia
A bleak, funny vision of a future where our sad world gets a lot worse
Sunday Times
For those who feel haunted by the whole idea of the normal, Vanishing World offers, like all of this writer's books, something you just can't find anywhere else
Wall Street Journal
A unique angle on what happens to someone when the building blocks of society start coming down around them
Irish Independent
Murata's skill lies in making even the most outlandish ideas seem logical
Prospect
The best book I've read in the past year... It left me feeling something I hadn't felt before - that's the hallmark of a great book
- Ulla Johnson, Financial Times