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Convenience Store Woman

By Sayaka Murata and Ginny Tapley Takemori
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Publisher Description

The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits in to the rigidity of its work culture only too well

218 Reviews

3.5

Loudly Crying Face“This is one of my favorite reads this year so far. I think I related so much with the character, feeling like an outcast yet finding purpose in one thing. It’s so human and I love it.”
Characters change and growMulti-layered charactersBeautifully-writtenEasy to readFunnyDescriptive
Morally ambiguousOriginal charactersOriginalUnpredictableRealisticComicalThought-provoking
“I expected more to be addressed in this book, it's missing something...”

About Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata is the author of many books, including Convenience Store Woman, winner of Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize. She used to work part-time in a convenience store, which inspired this novel. Murata has been named a Freeman’s “Future of New Writing” author, and her work has appeared in Granta and elsewhere. In 2016, Vogue Japan selected her as a Woman of the Year.

Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated works by more than a dozen Japanese writers, including Ryū Murakami. She lives at the foot of a mountain in Eastern Japan.

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