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Book review: Sayaka Murata's builds a dystopian world of sexless marriages in Vanishing World

Book review: Sayaka Murata's builds a dystopian world of sexless marriages in Vanishing World

Straits Times24-05-2025
In Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World, marriage is reduced to a platonic contract between man and woman.
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