Book
Convenience store woman / Sayaka Murata ; translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802128256 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 163 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A novel"--Jacket cover. "Original published as Konbini ningen. Japanese edition published by Bungeishunju Ltd., Tokyo"--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Clerks (Retail trade) > Fiction. Japan > Social life and customs > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Murat | 31681010106961 | FICTION | Available | - |
Sayaka Murata is the author of many books, including Convenience Store Woman, winner of Japanâs most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize. She used to work part-time in a convenience store, which inspired this novel. Murata has been named a Freemanâs âFuture of New Writingâ author, and her work has appeared in Granta and elsewhere. In 2016, Vogue Japan selected her as a Woman of the Year.
Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated works by more than a dozen Japanese writers, including Ryu Murakami. She lives at the foot of a mountain in Eastern Japan.
