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Wed 22 Oct
|London
Sayaka Murata: Vanishing World
The Convenience Store Woman author discusses her new book, set in a near-future where children are conceived by artificial insemination, with Octavia Bright.
Time & Location
22 Oct 2025, 19:30 – 21:30
London, Southbank Centre, London SE1, UK
About the event
In Vanishing World, even sex between married couples is viewed as taboo.
Amane’s family is irregular. Her parents copulated to create her and hope that she too will find love and have a child with the person she marries. But Amane falls in line with society’s way of thinking and wants a regular ‘clean’ marriage.
Then she hears of a place that is the subject of a social experiment. Everyone in Paradise-Eden will act as one big family. Could this be the perfect third way?
Octavia Bright is a writer and broadcaster. She has presented programmes for BBC Radio 4, including World Book Café and Open Book, and hosts literary events for bookshops, publishers and festivals. She also co-hosted Literary Friction, the literary podcast and NTS Radio show, for over a decade with Carrie Plitt.
In partnership with the Japan Foundation and the Japan House London Trust
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