Convenience Store Woman

Name: Convenience Store Woman
Rating: 3.789 (218 reviews)
ISBN: 9780802165800

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

bookswithem

Created 26 days ago

Melanie Morton

Created 27 days ago

“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.”

Reviewed in:The Bernadette Readers

Characters change and growMulti-layered charactersBeautifully-writtenEasy to readFunnyDescriptive

kellyprob

Created about 1 month ago

Morally ambiguousOriginal charactersOriginalUnpredictableRealisticComicalThought-provoking

Karen ♥️

Created about 1 month ago

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

Ling Ling Chang

Created about 2 months ago

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.