24th ilb
5 – 14 Sep 2024 Program
9 – 18 Sep 2024 Young Program

Earthlings

Sayaka Murata, author of the bestseller »Convenience Store Woman«, tells in her new novel about young Natsuki and her cousin Yu, neither of whom feels they belong to this world. With a protagonist »on an escalating odyssey between lostness and escaping the world, powerlessness and resistance, naivety and insanity«, Sayaka Murata succeeds in creating a »breathtaking and mysterious novel« [Frankfurter Rundschau].

In cooperation with The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne/ The Japan Foundation and the Japanese-German Center Berlin.

Event language(s): Japanese/ German