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in 1987, this Japanese author has garnered a cult-like following, his works being translated into 50 languages and selling five million copies worldwide. Murakami’s latest endeavour should not. Dripping with all the same magic realism and surreal twists and turns that have made him so famous, this novel follows an everyman’s quest to the shadowy parallel universe where his girlfriend has disappeared.
It seems that anything Eliza Clark touches turns to gold. It began in 2020, when her darkly comic debut novel,, her ingenious second novel – which is presented as the true-crime story of a murder among teenage girls – she had been named one of Britain’s best young novelists on Granta’s once-in-a-decade list.blends horror, fantasy and speculative fiction to examine greed and power in its myriad forms, all through the lens of the female experience.
“I think I’m more interested in gender as an expression of, or a vehicle for, power than I am in gender itself,” she says. “Power is one of my primaryTurning to the short form for her third book wasn’t a conscious decision. “I didn’t exactly sit down and decide my third book would be a short-story collection – I write short stories habitually and have had enough of them for a collection for a while,” she explains.
Having the time and space to get the collection right may also be a by-product of being held up as one of our bestworking today. If a declaration on her own website is anything to go by, she believes she is “overhyped”. But she still acknowledges this gives her an advantage. “I’ve talked a bit before about how publishing creates a crabs in a bucket mentality among writers” – that is, an envious mindset, which means you feel you need to prevent others from gaining a favourable position – “so I suppose it’s nice to be one of the larger crabs toward the top end of the bucket. I just hope to be in a position to pay that forward at some point.”
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