Convenience Store Woman

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
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Sayaka Murata,Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
Published: 09/17/2019
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802129628
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 6.90″ L x 5.00″ W

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.