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 (Ljudbok): 9781094189123
Översättare: Ginny Tapley Takemori
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 5 januari 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 (Ljudbok): 9781094189123
Översättare: Ginny Tapley Takemori
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 5 januari 2021
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Jennifer
21 mars 2023
ett avslappnat livsmotto som övergår till kannibalism, spännande…
Effi
30 dec. 2022
Hmm, börjar väldigt bra med en fin beskrivning av en vänskap i barndomen. Slutet är oväntat och rätt konstigt.
Jonas
7 mars 2022
Inte alls vad jag hade förväntat mig, riktigt kuslig bok, men fantastiskt bra.
Carri
19 feb. 2023
I don't know what I just listened to 😶This could been a great book with the underlying storyline of human behavior and society. But seriously, the rest is just awkward and nothing makes sense.
Familjen
27 juni 2023
I'm sorry. Maybe if I had read this I could have interpereted it in some genious way that would make this all seem OK, but no. This was gross and weird, and even tho it had somewhat of a message, I feel like they could have gotten it across without all of whatever that was. Both halves were very traumatic, for entierly different reasons.
Familjen
25 jan. 2023
Ja, detta va ju äckligt. Lycka till. Mycket försvinner nog i översättningen rent språkligt, men samtidigt är storyn en upplevelse!
saga
3 aug. 2023
what even
Karin
1 juni 2023
Mycket oväntad, väcker mycket tankar om könsroller, och roller vi har i samhället. Hur social press tvingar in oss i ramar skapade av samhället. Lättlyssnad, mörk och udda!
M.
9 nov. 2022
Obehaglig!
Lina
22 mars 2022
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