Convenience store woman
Murata, Sayaka, 1979-2019
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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.
Main title:
Convenience store woman / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2019.
Collation:
163 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
This translation originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9781846276842 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTIONFiction
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
2763846
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