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  • Earthlings

    A Novel

    by Sayaka Murata ...
    An otherworldly coming-of-age tale of a woman who believes she is an alien, from the author of the international sensation Convenience Store Woman.Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Convenience Store Woman

    A Novel

    by Sayaka Murata ...
    Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori ...
    Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book AwardLonglisted for the Believer Book AwardLonglisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in TranslationA Los Angeles Times BestsellerThe English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Vanishing World

    by Sayaka Murata ...
    Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori ...
    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, x-raying our contemporary ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Life Ceremony

    Stories

    by Sayaka Murata ...
    Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori ...
    The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Life Ceremony

    Stories

    by Sayaka Murata ...
    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi, Nancy Wu, Natalie Naudus, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, various narrators ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 55 min

    The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Convenience Store Woman

    A Novel

    by Sayaka Murata ...
    Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 36 min

    “An exhilaratingly weird and funny Japanese novel about a long-term convenience store employee. Unsettling and totally unpredictable—my copy is now heavily underlined.” —Sally Rooney, The GuardianSelling over a million copies in Japan and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and many other publications, Convenience Store Woman is both delightfully strange and oddly ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Earthlings

    A Novel

    by Sayaka Murata ...
    Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. Each summer, Natsuki counts down the days until her family drives into the mountains of Nagano to visit her grandparents in their wooden house in ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Vanishing World

    A Novel

    by Sayaka Murata ...
    Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 48 min

    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 insemination.Sayaka Murata has proven herself to be one of the most exciting chroniclers of the strangeness of society, x-raying our contemporary ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Hunger

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  • Moderation

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    Cursed Bunny

    Stories

    by Bora Chung ...
    Narrated by Greta Jung ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    A wildly original novel from a rising star of Korean literature—surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite.From an author never before published in the United States, Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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