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020			_a9781803511207
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041			_aeng _hjpn
050			_aPL873.U73 _bS5613 2025
100			_aMurata, Sayaka _d1979- _926365 _eauthor
245			_aVanishing world _c/ Sayaka Murata ; translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
260			_aLondon : _bGranta Publications. _c2025.
300			_a233 pages ; _c21 cm.
520			_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?
650		0	_aArtificial insemination, Human _vFiction _926367
650		0	_aMan-woman relationships _vFiction _911134
650		0	_aMarriage _vFiction _926149
650		0	_aMarried women _xFiction _923166
650		0	_aReproduction _vFiction _926368
651		0	_aJapan _vFiction _926369
655		0	_aDystopian fiction _925624
700			_aTakemori, Ginny Tapley _926366 _etranslator
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