This book is Japan’s answer to Brave New World

This book is Japan’s answer to Brave New World

The Japanese author Sayaka Murata has become a pin-up novelist for Gen Z readers thanks to her consumable, droll dystopias about social misfits, the overload of reality and the consolations the digital sphere might offer. Her breakthrough novel, Convenience Store Woman, published in English in …

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