Earthlings : a novel
/ Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori
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Grove Press
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2020
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First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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| Avon Free Public Library - New Materials | F MURATA, S. | Check Shelf | ||
| Manchester, Whiton Branch - New Materials | MURATA, SAYAKA | Check Shelf | ||
| Portland Public Library - New Materials | FIC MURATA | Check Shelf | ||
| Simsbury Public Library - New Materials | NEW F MURATA, SAYAKA | Check Shelf | ||
| West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Adult New Materials | F MURATA SAYAKA | Check Shelf | ||
| West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials | F MURATA SAYAKA | Check Shelf |
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| Avon Free Public Library - New Materials | F MURATA, S. | Check Shelf | ||
| Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials | FICTION MURATA | DUE 02-16-21 | ||
| Bristol, Main Library - New Materials | F MURATA | DUE 01-26-21 | ||
| Manchester, Whiton Branch - New Materials | MURATA, SAYAKA | Check Shelf | ||
| Mansfield, Main Library - Adult New Fiction | F MURATA | DUE 02-05-21 | ||
| Portland Public Library - New Materials | FIC MURATA | Check Shelf | ||
| Simsbury Public Library - New Materials | NEW F MURATA, SAYAKA | Check Shelf | ||
| West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Adult New Materials | F MURATA SAYAKA | Check Shelf | ||
| West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials | F MURATA SAYAKA | Check Shelf | ||
| Wethersfield Public Library - New Books | NEW FIC MURATA | DUE 01-05-21 | ||
| Windsor, Main Library - Adult New Materials | F-MURATA | DUE 02-01-21 |
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| Edition |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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| Description |
247 pages ; 22 cm
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| Note |
"Originally published as Chikyu seijin. Japanese edition published by Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo"--Title page verso.
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| Summary |
"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 the forest. One summer, her cousin Yuu confides to Natsuki that he is an extraterrestrial, and Natsuki starts to wonder if she might be an alien too. Later, as a married woman, Natsuki feels forced to fit in to a society she deems a "baby factory" but wonders if there is more to the world than the mundane reality everyone else seems to accept. The answers are out there, and Natsuki has the power to find them. Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world, and cements Sayaka Murata's status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Language |
In English. Translated from the Japanese.
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Chikyu seijin. English
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| ISBN |
9780802157003 hardcover
0802157009 hardcover
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