VANISHING WORLD
★★★☆☆
► RELEASED
24 APRIL 240 pages | Hardback/ebook
► Author Sayaka Murata
► Publisher Granta Books
Even in the weirdest of sci-fi worlds, storytellers tend to use familiar human notions like family as a shorthand to help us relate to alien characters. Vanishing World (originally published in Japan back in 2015) flips that cosy notion on its head, as author Sayaka Murata rewrites the rules of love and marriage.