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Author	Murata, Sayaka, 1979-
Title	Life ceremony : stories / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Publication Info.	New York : Grove Press, 2022.
	©2022

Location	Call No.	Status
Lobby Fiction		IN LIBRARY

Edition	First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Description	244 pages : 22 cm
Note	Originally published as Seimeishiki in 2019 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Ltd., Tokyo.
Contents	A first-rate material -- A magnificent spread -- A summer night's kiss -- Two's family -- The time of the large star -- Poochie -- Life ceremony -- Body magic -- Lover on the breeze -- Puzzle -- Eating the city -- Hatchling.
Note	In English, translated from Japanese.
Subject	Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
	Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
	Social norms -- Fiction.
	Short stories, Japanese -- Translations into English.
Genre or Form	Short stories.
Added Author	Takemori, Ginny Tapley, translator.
Added Title	Seimeishiki. English
ISBN	9780802159588 (hardcover)
	0802159583 (hardcover)
	9780802159595 (ebook)

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