Vanishing World

<p><b>"Normality is the creepiest madness there is..."</b><br><br>In our near-future world, children are solely conceived by artificial insemination. Even sex between married couples is viewed as taboo.<br><br>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?<br><br><b>Praise for Sayaka Murata''s fiction:<br></b><b>''Exhilarating, weird and funny'' Sally Rooney</b><br><b>''Radical, hilarious, heartbeaking'' Elif Batuman</b><br><b>''A gift to anyone who has ever felt at odds with the world'' Ruth Ozeki</b></p>