🌟 "Baren en moorden" by Sayaka Murata

Translated from Japanese into Dutch by Luk Van Haute. It's not available in English yet, but I'm sure it's coming some day soon! The Dutch title, literally translated, would be 'to birth and to murder'. I wonder what the English title will be. The Birth Murder? Birth and Murder? Murderous Birth? Imagine a world where you could commit murder legally. Simply birth ten living children and you'll gain the right to murder anyone you'd like, fully state-sponsored and without any consequences. Or commit a murder without having done the required the work beforehand, and get sentenced to birthing children until your very last breath. Cute system, no? Of course this transformation has happened along with great changes in the world, in societies, and in personal attitudes, but I'll leave that to the reader to discover for themselves. Peering into the text, I think this could count as climate fiction too. The book is very interesting on its own. We get to follow one person's view into how the…