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Review - Earthlings by Sayaka Murata



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Earthlings is a seriously weird ride. Centered around the main female protagonist's disaffection from normal society, what she calls 'The Factory', we follow her as she hides from childhood trauma with a construction that she is actually an alien being.


This novel is one of the weirdest I've ever read; it is not for the faint hearted and should come with absolutely every trigger warning going. It is daring, violent - sometimes gratuitously so - and bizarre. It wasn't quite my cup of tea but I appreciated what the author was trying to say about the nature of Japanese society in particular, and the world as a whole.


Overall, approach with caution.


Thank you to NetGalley and Granta for providing a copy of this crazy read.


Earthlings is available from BookshopOrg here, from Waterstones here or from Amazon here.


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