The surprise smash hit - Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.

Meet Keiko.

Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.

Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married.

But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store...

Details

ISBN13: 9781846276842
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 176
Edition:
Publication Date: 03 Jun 2019
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)x1(W)130
Weight (gm): 130

Author Biography

One of the most celebrated of the new generation of Japanese writers, Sayaka Murata has won not only the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, but the Gunzo, Noma, and Mishima Yukio Prizes as well. Her story, 'A Clean Marriage', was featured in Granta 127 Japan. 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.

Reviews

'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