TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sayaka Murata
AU  - Takemori,Ginny Tapley  (tr.)
TI  - CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN
SN  - 9781846276835
U1  - F 
PY  - 2018////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Portobello Books
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
KW  - Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
KW  - Conformity -- Fiction
N1  - 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
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