Convenience Store Woman

Name: Convenience Store Woman
Brand: Granta
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By: Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)

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Paperback | 3 June 2019

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176 Pages

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20 x 13 x 1.5

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The surprise smash hit - Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.

Meet Keiko.

Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.

Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married.

But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store...

About the Author

One of the most celebrated of the new generation of Japanese writers, Sayaka Murata has won not only the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, but the Gunzo, Noma, and Mishima Yukio Prizes as well. Her story, 'A Clean Marriage', was featured in Granta 127 Japan. She is 38 years old and works part-time in a convenience store.

About the Translator

Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated Ryu Murakami, Miyabe Miyuki, Akiyuki Nosaka, and Kyotaro Nishimura, among others. Her translation of Tomiko Inui's The Secret of the Blue Glass was shortlisted for the Marsh Award.

Industry Reviews

"Reading Convenience Store Woman--a spare, quietly brilliant novel about an offbeat woman whose life revolves around the convenience store she works at--is like being lulled into a soft calm . . . Though she feels like the odd one out, it's her frank appraisal of the systems of the world that reveals the absurdity of everyone else. Whey has society at large agreed to live by these arbitrary rules? And why does everyone else treat Keiko's rejection of these rules like a threat?"
BuzzFeed

"Sayaka Murata's novel Convenience Store Woman playfully illustrates the daily routines and ruminations of an eccentric Tokyo salesclerk."
Elle

"Quirky, memorable . . . A neat and pleasing fable about the virtues and pleasures of conformity that could only be Japanese."
Times (UK)

"Engaging . . . A sure-fire hit of the summer."
Irish Times

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