Convenience store woman
Murata, Sayaka, 1979-2019
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Total copies: 2
Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her 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 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.
Main title:
Convenience store woman / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Author:
Murata, Sayaka, 1979-, authorTakemori, Ginny Tapley, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2019.
Collation:
163 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
This translation originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9781846276842 (pbk)9781846276859 (ebook)
Dewey class:
895.636
LC class:
PL873.U73
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
374888