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.
CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN COMES IN THREE DIFFERENT COLOURS; THE COLOUR YOU RECEIVE WILL BE CHOSEN AT RANDOM.
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A bestselling literary sensation, SAYAKA MURATA has won all of Japan’s major literary prizes, and been named a Vogue Woman of the Year. Murata spent 18 years working part-time in convenience stores before the success of Convenience Store Woman afforded her the freedom to leave and write full-time. Convenience Store Woman has sold more than a million copies in Japan alone and is being translated into 23 languages worldwide.
GINNY TAPLEY TAKEMORI has translated Ryu, Murakami, Miyuki Miyabe and Kyoto Nakajima, among other writers.
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正常的世界是非常强硬的,它会静静地排除掉异类。不够正经的人都会被处理掉。
刚才还说自己被人指指点点会生气,现在却反过来用折磨过自己的那套价值观来对我评头论足。我越发觉得白羽先生语无伦次。觉得自己的人生被强奸的人,用同样的方式去攻击他人的人生,或许能让他心情舒畅一点吧。
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