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Convenience Store Woman
Contributor(s): Murata, Sayaka (Author), Tapley Takemori, Ginny (Translator)
ISBN: 1538555611     ISBN-13: 9781538555613
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats
Published: June 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 6.7" (0.22 lbs)
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
Thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in--neither in her family, nor in school--but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are crystal clear (many are laid out line by line in the store's manual), Keiko does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and mode of speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less. Keiko is the perfect employee--never late, always worrying about how to maximize sales, brilliantly conscientious, and highly energetic. Managers come and go but Keiko remains at the store for eighteen years. It's almost hard to tell where the store ends and she begins. Keiko is very happy in her life, but the people close to her, from her family to her coworkers, pressure her to settle down with a man and to find a proper profession. Eventually, she is pushed to make a huge change. The static world of Keiko is upended--but will it be for the better?A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and an extraordinary world, Convenience Store Woman is both an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.

Contributor Bio(s): Murata, Sayaka: -

Sayaka Murata is one of Japan's most exciting contemporary writers. She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which was the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman, her English-language debut and winner of one of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, the Akutagawa Prize. Her work has appeared in Freeman's, Granta, and elsewhere.