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Tonari no nōsekai

Tonari no nōsekai

Literary FictionScience Fiction
Pages
269
Published
2018
Language
Japanese

Synopsis

In a world where humans have evolved to live without brains, a young woman named Nao finds herself an anomaly, possessing a brain that allows her to think and feel in ways others cannot. As she navigates a society that views her as both a relic and a threat, Nao struggles to understand her own existence and place in a world that has moved beyond the need for individual thought. This story explores the meaning of humanity and consciousness in a radically altered future.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

Thought-ProvokingComplexPhilosophicalDark
Fish Out of Water

Genres

Literary Fiction Science Fiction

About the author

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Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata (村田沙耶香) is a Japanese novelist and short-story writer, born on 14 August 1979 in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture. She worked part-time as a convenience store clerk in Tokyo for eighteen years, until 2017, and drew on that experience for the novel that made her name internationally. Her fiction returns to nonconformity, gender roles, reproduction and sexuality, often pushing everyday social expectation to a disquieting extreme. She won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 2003 for her de...