I got finished reading Earthlings and also Convenience Store Woman and I thought both were interesting. Maybe a weird take, but they both remind me of Fight Club where so much of the story is down to the exact writing and POV of the narrator, and then you wind up going down a series of unexpected, sometimes funny, sometimes shocking little rabbit holes.
I've been recommended No Longer Human and Memory Police, but both of those bored me. Not enough happened. The main character of No Longer Human was just self-pitiying and described a very normal life, all things considered. Memory Police was just too atmospheric and contemplative for my tastes. It followed what seemed to be a pretty generic plot for scifi worlds like that.
Any suggestions?
by c3534l
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Butter is described as a cult classic, it was translated into English in 2024. To mixed reviews.
People From my Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami. Not everyoneʼs cup of tea but YMMV. Not exactly a novel but more like an interconnected series of flash fiction about quirky characters in an unspecified Japanese neighborhood. Stories start conventional if a bit offbeat but then the stories start to increase in surreal stuff. Found it pretty nice, pretty neat, again, not everyoneʼs cup of tea but worth a shot.
Ryu Murakami’s entire work is this.