Convenience Store Woman

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

Author: Sayaka Murata
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 09/17/2019
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780802129628
ISBN10: 0802129625
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | City Life

About the Author

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.