Details:
- author: Sayaka Murata
- full title: Convenience Store Woman
- narrator: Nancy Wu
- genre: literary fiction
- topics: #citylife, #japanese, #socialoutcast
- country: japan
- publisher: Blackstone Audio
- publish date: 12.06.2018
- timing: 3:21:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
The time before I was reborn as a convenience store worker is somewhat unclear in my memory. I was born into a normal family and lovingly brought up in a normal suburban residential area. But everyone thought I was a rather strange child.
My Thoughts:
Convenience Store worker is mostly a temporary job, but Keiko finds this job reassuring. Routine and predictability are what she needs. So, after eighteen years, she still works there.
Convenience Store Woman was my first novel by Sayaka Murata, and I’m impressed.
About the Author:
Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田 沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthquake, Waseda Bungaku, 2011) and "A Clean Marriage" (Granta 127: Japan, 2014).
