CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN
Sayaka Murata
CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN - 1 - London Portobello Books 2018/01/01 - 163
The Japanese literary sensation about an unconventional woman who finds happiness in a Tokyo convenience store.
Keiko has never really fitted in. At school and university people find her odd and her family worries she'll never be normal. To appease them, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store. Here, she finds peace and purpose in the simple, daily tasks and routine interactions. She is, she comes to understand, happiest as a convenience store worker. But in Keiko's social circle it just won't do for an unmarried woman to spend all her time stacking shelves and re-ordering green tea. As pressure mounts on Keiko to find either a new job, or worse, a husband, she is forced to take desperate action...
A best-seller in Japan, and the winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman marks the English-language debut of a writer who has been hailed as the most exciting voice of her generation.
9781846276835
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction
Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Conformity -- Fiction.
F / SAY/CO
CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN - 1 - London Portobello Books 2018/01/01 - 163
The Japanese literary sensation about an unconventional woman who finds happiness in a Tokyo convenience store.
Keiko has never really fitted in. At school and university people find her odd and her family worries she'll never be normal. To appease them, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store. Here, she finds peace and purpose in the simple, daily tasks and routine interactions. She is, she comes to understand, happiest as a convenience store worker. But in Keiko's social circle it just won't do for an unmarried woman to spend all her time stacking shelves and re-ordering green tea. As pressure mounts on Keiko to find either a new job, or worse, a husband, she is forced to take desperate action...
A best-seller in Japan, and the winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman marks the English-language debut of a writer who has been hailed as the most exciting voice of her generation.
9781846276835
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction
Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Conformity -- Fiction.
F / SAY/CO