Vanishing World

Birth

Bewertung am 26.05.2025
Bewertungsnummer: 2500189
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Murata writes in a way that entrances and fascinates you all at once. Her writing style is unique and always top tier. In Vanishing World having sex as a married couple is not the norm, it is actually rather unusual. The very idea of having sex and reproducing "the old way" is so absurd, the main character Amane is appalled when she finds out her parents have birthed her "the old way". Sex when married is considered incest in this novel. Vanishing World is a bizarre critique on our contemporary world and what sexuality means. The novel makes you feel uncomfortable at times and still leaves you thinking about it for hours. Beautifully done and just as much worth a read as Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.

Adapt or be left behind

ཐིཋྀ am 28.04.2026
Bewertungsnummer: 3122681
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

This story provides an interesting approach on sex and relationships and how the people are expected to leave behind their old world view and the loss and confusion some might feel with the experience. It shows that each new generation has a moment in which they need to accept and adapt or be left behind. As always with this author the story is not what I expected at all (aside from the authors tendency for super long chapters). It is weird and unconventional but that is what makes it so strangely enjoyable to read. *Spoiler ahead* the story´s view on what constitudes as incest is wild and that being said there is a possibility that on one of these occasions it truly was incest... I´ll leave it at that but I really recommend this book. ~ཐིཋྀ