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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
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3.5

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Reviewed in:The Bernadette Readers
Characters change and growMulti-layered charactersBeautifully-writtenEasy to readFunnyDescriptive

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Morally ambiguousOriginal charactersOriginalUnpredictableRealisticComicalThought-provoking

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“I expected more to be addressed in this book, it's missing something...”

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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.