Sayaka Murata's Vanishing Word is out in English next week! ❤️ (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/19/marriage-feels-like-a-hostage-situation-and-motherhood-a-curse-japanese-author-sayaka-murata
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‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata
The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’
The Guardian