Even if the characters and stage settings are different, I feel that each story shares similarities on a deep psychological level. Ever since, I feel like I’ve been writing short but a very long story. However, when I read them back as a book, I did feel that they were well connected together. I’m an author that writes both short and long stories, and my debut was with a short one.Īs I didn’t think I would get the chance to publish my work as a collection, I freely wrote each short story from the beginning of my debut. This book is a compilation of short stories I’ve written in many places since the beginning of my career. Strange and thought provoking, Murata mixes humour and horror, and ultimately asks what it means to be human.ĭid you set out to write a collection of short stories or does Life Ceremony draw together stories written over an extended period of time? And what ties them together as a collection? Her new collection of short stories, Life Ceremony, won’t surprise her fans but it might unsettle them, as she imagines a world in which people recycle human remains for homeware and clothing or one where mourners tuck into human hotpot in the ultimate tribute to their loved ones. Sayaka Murata’s quirky novel Convenience Store Woman caught the imagination of readers in 30 languages and projected the cult writer into the mainstream.
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