2025-05-05

In Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata peels back the layers of modern detachment and reconfigures them into something stranger, lonelier, and oddly beautiful. This isn’t dystopians the way we’ve come to expect it. There are no flaming cities or rebel uprisings, no rigid authoritarianism. Instead, Murata offers something quieter and more terrifying: a future that’s already…