Life ceremony. Murat S.

The “Life Ceremony” is a collection of short stories by Sayaki Murata, for which her prose is highly appreciated in Japan. Cute and shocking at the same time, these stories find the reader by surprise and remain in memory for a long time.

Into the interchangeing and terrible, Murat turns inside out the norms of morality and the traditions of society in order to show the inner world of his heroes: outcasts and loners. Understand where the events unfold - in modern Japan, in the past or in alternative reality - sometimes it is quite difficult: too often their heroes seem to be unusual in a frighteningly unusual world.

in their strange stories about Family and friendship, sex and proximity, community and individuality of Murat, primarily asks the question of what it means to be a person in our world.