I am a huge Sayaka Murata fan and this novel sounds like something I am really going to enjoy.
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This Japanese dystopian novel promises to entrance and captivate me in a way that only Murata can do. I am not a big science fiction reader, but somehow she gives depth to her layered stories that speak to something quite deep inside.
Here is the novel's summary:
As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents “copulated” in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange “system” by her mother, but her infatuations with both anime characters and real people have a sexual force that is undeniable. As an adult in an appropriately sexless marriage—sex between married couples is now considered as taboo as incest—Amane and her husband Saku decide to go and live in a mysterious new town called Experiment City or Paradise-Eden, where all children are raised communally, and every person is considered a Mother to all children. Men are beginning to become pregnant using artificial wombs that sit outside of their bodies like balloons, and children are nameless, called only “Kodomo-chan.” Is this the new world that will purify Amane of her strangeness once and for all?
I love looking at covers on my tablet and I am being very cautious of the physical books that I am bringing into my library. If I don't think I will read it immediately, I won't buy the physical edition.
I also just decluttered 58 novels. I only want to keep physical copies of books that I will re-read and want to take a super slow time with.
I've always been a digital e-reading person, and as my life has become more stressful, just the clutter of a huge bookshelves brings on a certain anxiety.
I'll report back on what I think about this novel, but either way, I highly recommend you pick this one up or anything by this author.
Happy reading ☕️
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