01975nam a22002777a 4500008004100000020001800041040000800059041001300067050002600080100004100106245007600147260004200223300002400265520099900289650005101288650004501339650002901384650003401413650003301447651002601480655002901506700004601535942000801581952009301589999001501682251029b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781803511207  ctbs  aenghjpn  aPL873.U73bS5613 2025  aMurata, Sayakad1979-926365eauthor  aVanishing worldc/ Sayaka Murata ; translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.  aLondon :bGranta Publications.c2025.  a233 pages ;c21 cm.  aAs a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents "copulated" in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange "system" by her mother, but her infatuations with both anime characters and real people have a sexual force that is undeniable. As an adult in an appropriately sexless marriage-sex between married couples is now considered as taboo as incest-Amane and her husband Saku ultimately decide to go and live in a mysterious new town called Experiment City or Paradise-Eden, where all children are raised communally, and every person is considered a Mother to all children. Men are beginning to become pregnant using artificial wombs that sit outside of their bodies like balloons, and children are nameless, called only "Kodomo-chan." Is this the new world that will purify Amane of her strangeness once and for all? 0aArtificial insemination, HumanvFiction926367 0aMan-woman relationships vFiction911134 0aMarriagevFiction926149 0aMarried womenxFiction923166 0aReproductionvFiction926368 0aJapanvFiction926369 0aDystopian fiction925624  aTakemori, Ginny Tapley926366etranslator  2lcc  00102lcc4070aTBSbTBSd2025-10-29l0oP-EN MURpB05683r2025-10-29t1w2025-10-29y1  c5119d5119