Vanishing World

Vanishing World

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From The Author Of The Bestselling Literary Sensations Convenience Store Woman And Earthlings Comes A Surprising And Highly Imaginative Story Set In A Version Of Japan Where Sex Between Married Couples Has Vanished And All Children Are Born By Artificial Inseminationsayaka Murata Has Proven Herself To Be One Of The Most Exciting Chroniclers Of The Strangeness Of Society, XRaying Our Contemporary World To Bizarre And Troubling Effect. Her Depictions Of A Happily Unmarried Retail Worker In Convenience Store Woman And A Young Woman Convinced She Is An Alien In Earthlings Have Endeared Her To Millions Of Readers Worldwide. Vanishing World Takes MurataS Universe To A Bold New Level, Imagining An Alternative Japan Where Attitudes To Sex And Procreation Are Wildly Different To Our Own.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 MidTwentieth 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 MarriageSex Between Married Couples Is Now Considered As Taboo As IncestAmane And Her Husband Saku Decide To Go And Live In A Mysterious New Town Called Experiment City Or ParadiseEden, 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 KodomoChan. Is This The New World That Will Purify Amane Of Her Strangeness Once And For All?

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