Books
Jun 17, 2019
4 minutes
COMPILED BY SUZY BROKENSHA
CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN
BY SAYAKA MURATA
Sayaka Murata is a bestselling author in Japan, but this is the first of her 10 books to be translated into English. Written in a style that is somehow slightly dislocated from honest emotion – something I quite often think about Japanese novels (a function of the translation, maybe?) – this is the story of 36-year-old Keiko, who only really feels herself able to behave like a real person within the brightly lit embrace of the convenience store where she works.
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When her colleague is fired for being too slack, she invites him to live with her, where he carries on slobbingas Keiko was to everyone else.
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