Convenience Store Woman

‘An exhilaratingly weird and funny Japanese novel about a long-term convenience store employee. Unsettling and totally unpredictable - my copy is now heavily underlined.’ - Sally Rooney, Guardian‘Unapologetically deadpan yet enticingly comic…it’s the novel’s cumulative, idiosyncratic poetry that lingers, attaining a weird, fluorescent kind of beauty all of its own… Irresistible.’ - Observer

Sayaka Murata is one of the most celebrated of the new generation of Japanese writers. She has won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, as well as the Gunzo, Noma, and Mishima Yukio Prizes. She is 38 years old and works part-time in a convenience store.

Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated Ryu Murakami, Miyabe Miyuki, Akiyuki Nosaka, and Kyotaro Nishimura, among others. Her translation of Tomiko Inui’s The Secret of the Blue Glass was shortlisted for the Marsh Award.