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Convenience store woman / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takamori.
Van Pelt Library PL873.U73 C6613 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murata, Sayaka, 1979- author.
- 村田沙耶香, 1979- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Conbini ningen. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Convenience stores.
- Conformity.
- Japan.
- Japan--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Conformity--Fiction.
- Convenience stores--Japan--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 172 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Grove Press, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the Japanese.
- Summary:
- "An international sensation that has sold more than a million copies in Japan and was named a Best Book of the Year by U.S. publications from Buzzfeed to the New Yorker, Convenience Store Woman is the charming and unforgettable story of Tokyo sales clerk Keiko Furukura. Keiko is an unusual person, someone who has never fit in, but when she takes a job at a 'Smile Mart' she finally finds peace and purpose in her daily tasks. But there is huge pressure on Keiko--to pursue a career, to find a husband--and she feels forced to take desperate action in order to please the people around her instead of herself. Is there room in this 'normal' world for someone as strange as Keiko?"--Publisher description.
- Notes:
- "September 2019"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 0802129625
- 9780802129628
- OCLC:
- 1055687262
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