3.7
Romans literatuur
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 (Luisterboek): 9781094189123
Vertaling: Ginny Tapley Takemori
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 5 januari 2021
3.7
Romans literatuur
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 (Luisterboek): 9781094189123
Vertaling: Ginny Tapley Takemori
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 5 januari 2021
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Dyann -
23 apr 2022
Luckily I'm not very sensitive when it comes to triggers but I was not prepared for what happened in Earthlings.It is very skillfully written and you can imagine yourself in the skin of Natsuki, the protagonist. This is a curse and a blessing, trust me. It made me feel very uncomfortable, in a good way and I highly recommend you check this out, but read the trigger warnings first.
Moniqqa
30 jun 2023
Wonderfully written, just like het first book, the convenience store woman. Trigger warning: child sexual abuse.
Hus
4 jul 2022
*spoiler* Trigger warning : sexual abuse, emotional abuse, violence, cannibalism.
Shirley
12 jan 2023
Dit boek is chaotisch, raar, vreemd en ik weet niet hoe ik het moet beschrijving maar dit was bijzonder te noemen...
Elisa
27 dec 2023
Weird book. Shock value +++Execution could have been much better: the characters are underdeveloped, and the plot doesn't flow like it should.
S.
4 sep 2023
Boek luistert lekker weg. Speelt zich af in Japan maar had overal kunnen zijn. Vooral het eind is verrassend, intrigreren en bijna humorvol door de bijna emotieloze schrijfstijl.
F
24 aug 2023
Damn, I thought I would be listening to a story about neurodivergence and alienation, and some fantasy element in it. It’s all that and more. But far more dark and twisted than I expected. It’s mainly a story about trauma I think. Trigger warning: sexual abuse, child abuse. And gore. I did like the observations about the (unwritten) rules we have as a society.
Kati
17 dec 2023
Loved this book. After liftening to it, I bought a physical copy to make sure my friends read it too. It is not something that leaves your brain quickly..
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