Convenience store woman
Murata, Sayaka, 1979-2018
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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 convienience store worker. But in Keiko's social circlel it just won't do for an unmarried woman to spend all her time stacking shelves and re-ordering green tea.
Convenience store woman / Sayaka Murata ; translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Murata, Sayaka, 1979-, authorTakemori, Ginny Tapley, translator
London : Granta, 2018.
176 pages ; 22 cm
Translated from the Japanese.
9781846276835 (pbk)
895.6'36
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