From the author of the international bestseller "Convenience Store Woman" comes a collection of short stories: strange, otherworldly, and like nothing you've ever read before.

An engaged couple disagrees over the husband's abhorrent attitude toward clothes and objects derived from human materials. A young woman finds herself deeply in love with the curtain in her childhood bedroom. People honor their dead by eating them and then reproduce. This exclusive edition, published in English for the first time, also includes the story that brought Sayaka Murata international acclaim: "A Clean Marriage," which tells the story of a happily asexual couple who must undergo radical medical procedures if they want to conceive their coveted child.

Combining outrageous body horror with feminist revenge tales, elderly women loving each other, and young women finding empathy and transformation in unlikely sources, "Life Ceremony" is a wild ride to the outer limits of one of the most original noirs in contemporary literature.

Pages: 272, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm