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Earthlings was one of my absolute favorite books I read last year, and Convenience Store Woman is another of my all-time favorites. I can’t wait to see what Sayaka Murata does next. Reply reply
Nov 9, 2020 · As Earthlings swerves into violent, transgressive, fantastical territory, Murata—ever the good scientist—keeps us in thrall by never putting her thumb on the scale. Her matter-of-fact ...
- Stephanie Hayes
Aug 31, 2018 · Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds.
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- Parallels with Fairy Tales
- Earthlings and Aliens
- The Darkness Close by
- Factory People
- The Dangers of Nonconformity
- Earthlings’ Circular Narrative
Earthlings may not explicitly invert Western fairy tales, but there are echoes of those familiar narratives: 1. It begins with Natsuki’s visit to her grandmotherin a remote wilderness 2. As the car weaves along the road between the trees, we catch a glimpse of the darkness embedded in the landscape 3. Natsuki remembers the silkworm stories as magic...
Earthlings is an ambiguous, fantastical tale that almostmasks its simple premise: it’s about a child who’s abused by the adults who should look after her. Natsuki’s story works in a few ways. Firstly, it’s a frank recollection of abuse, at times recast as fantasy – similar, perhaps, to the way children interpret things they can’t quite grasp. As a ...
Natsuki’s experience of childhood – such as it is – colours the narrative. If white dominates sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451, Earthlings returns again and again to the blackness. The memories at the start of the novel slide from the Akishina landscape to “the color of outer space”. The phrase and imagery repeats throughout the text, in keeping with he...
In The Matrix, protagonist Neo learns that reality is an illusion, and humans are merely batteries for machines. Natsuki has a similar perspective: Humans have two functions. They trade labour for food. And they must have sex and produce children. As such, Natsuki notes, her womb doesn’t belong to her– it’s a factory component (compare also how soc...
Natsuki doesn’t care for the things she’s expected to embrace: sex, children, career. She’s similar to Convenience Store Woman’s Keiko in this respect – possibly suggesting autism and asexuality, but also that Natsuki isn’t merely a product of abuse. She has her own complex way of seeing the world. The factory worldview has implications for individ...
Earthlings ends with a grim scene, when a band of rescuers and tormentors reach the house in Akishina. They’re overcome by what they find, including the trio’s apparent starvation (i.e., bony figures with protruding bellies). Perhaps the smell or sight of nonconformity is too much – or perhaps Natsuki’s recollection of cannibalism is the truth, and...
Oct 6, 2020 · The strength of her voice lies in the faux-naïf lens through which she filters her dark view of humankind: We earthlings are sad, truncated bots, shuffling through the world in a dream of...
Sayaka Murata's latest novel is an incisive expose of societal pressures and expectations, and touches on taboo topics such as abuse and incest.
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Oct 6, 2020 · The Magic Police had found out that Earth was facing a crisis and had sent him on a mission to save our planet. Since then I’d been using the powers he’d given me to protect the Earth. The only...
