Books convenience store woman

'Exhilaratingly weird and funny... Unsettling and totally unpredictable - my copy is now heavily underlined' Sally RooneyTHE UNEXPECTED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERMeet Keiko. She's 36 years old, has 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…

Katy Waldman reviews “Convenience Store Woman,” the first novel by the best-selling Japanese author Sayaka Murata to be translated into English, about an oddball who is endlessly puzzled by human behavior.

Sayaka Murata’s novel offers a fascinating way of thinking about your age. Or, more specifically, your ages.

In Sayaka Murata’s small, elegant and deadpan novel, a woman keeps herself at a remove from society while working for many years in a dead-end job at a Smile Mart.

Title: Convenience Store Woman Japanese Title: コンビニ人間 (Konbini ningen) Author: Sayaka Murata (村田 沙耶香) Translator: Ginny Tapley Takemori Publication Year: 2016 (Japan); 2018 (United States) Publishe…

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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...

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