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, a place that couldn’t be more different from her grey commuter town. One summer, her cousin Yuu confides to Natsuki that he is an extraterrestrial and that every night he searches the sky for the spaceship that might take him back to his home planet. Natsuki wonders if she might be an alien too.
Back in her city home, Natsuki is scolded or ignored and even preyed upon by a young teacher at her cram school. As she grows up in a hostile, violent world, she consoles herself with memories of her time with Yuu and discovers a surprisingly potent inner power. Natsuki seems forced to fit into a society she deems a “baby factory,” but even as a married woman she wonders if there is more to this 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.
© 2021 Blackstone Publishing (Audiolivros): 9781094189123
Tradutores : Ginny Tapley Takemori
Data de lançamento
Audiolivros: 5 de janeiro de 2021
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, a place that couldn’t be more different from her grey commuter town. One summer, her cousin Yuu confides to Natsuki that he is an extraterrestrial and that every night he searches the sky for the spaceship that might take him back to his home planet. Natsuki wonders if she might be an alien too.
Back in her city home, Natsuki is scolded or ignored and even preyed upon by a young teacher at her cram school. As she grows up in a hostile, violent world, she consoles herself with memories of her time with Yuu and discovers a surprisingly potent inner power. Natsuki seems forced to fit into a society she deems a “baby factory,” but even as a married woman she wonders if there is more to this 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.
© 2021 Blackstone Publishing (Audiolivros): 9781094189123
Tradutores : Ginny Tapley Takemori
Data de lançamento
Audiolivros: 5 de janeiro de 2021
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Giorgia
21 de nov. de 2022
Esquisito e divertido demais.
Naomi
28 de ago. de 2021
The most disgusting and disturbing book I've ever read
Paula
16 de abr. de 2024
A primeira parte eu achei linda e muito poética.Mas depois a coisa fica pesada demais, e o bizarro vai tomando conta em um nível cada vez maior, até chegar ao clímax ao final. Para o meu gosto, foi longe demais… Estragou um pouco as partes boas do livro. Porém há sim discussoes e ideias provocativas interessantes.E se fosse um conto e acabasse na primeira parte, eu daria 5 estrelas, pq o início eu achei perfeito!
Angélica
1 de mar. de 2024
Não se engane pela capa fofa; esse livro tem vários trechos bem pesados. No entanto, traz várias reflexões mordazes e super interessantes. É uma ótima leitura, mas você tem que estar disposto/a/e a encarar coisas bem perturbadoras.
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