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Nothing ever changes at the convenience store.

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

October 21, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

There is almost a sinister undertone to this brief, interesting novel. Keiko is a young woman working at the Hiiromachi branch of the Smile Mart, a convenience store – which sounds much cleaner, brighter, and customer-focused than any convenience store I’ve visited in the US. She sees herself as essentially reborn from the moment she takes this job. Early in the novel you know that Keiko is a little different – her flat affect in the narration and veneration of rules makes it immediately clear […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Sayaka Murata

booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:101 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Sayaka Murata ·
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Like A Wes Anderson Psychological Thriller in Japan

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

September 7, 2021 by Claire Badger 1 Comment

I eagerly picked up Earthlings when I heard it was released. I loved Sayaka Murata’s English language debut, Convenience Store Woman, and was excited to see what the latest translation of her work had to offer. She has a unique and compelling style of prose, and a way of explaining the pressures of Japanese society that is sympathetic to her weird outsiders and totally rational in a slightly twisted way. The cover and back of Earthlings is full of praise for Convenience Store Woman, raving […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: books in translation, Japan, japanese, psychological thriller, Sayaka Murata, unusual

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: books in translation, Japan, japanese, psychological thriller, Sayaka Murata, unusual ·
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Earthlings (2018) – Sayaka Murata

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

April 12, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CW: Child abuse/sex abuse A devastating follow up (not a sequel, just the same writer) to Convenience Store Woman, which I also reread and enjoyed more the second time. This story begins with the close narration of a young girl who believes she is a kind of outsider to the world, has a crush on her cousin, and finds weirdness and joy in different parts of her life. She is sexually abused by her teacher (and narrated in such sadness) and this causes her to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Sayaka Murata

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:161 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Sayaka Murata ·
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When a cog is broken, you throw it away.

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

April 2, 2021 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Keiko Furukura has been different her entire life, and she’s always to understand why she makes people uncomfortable. As a child, she found a dead bird and she brought it to her mother, who responded with sympathy and an offer to bury it. Keiko instead wanted to eat it. One day at school, two boys were fighting. Horrified, one of the girls screamed for someone to break them up, so Keiko grabbed a shovel and hit one of them over the head. And that was […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asexual, convenience store woman, hikikomori, incel, Japan, Sayaka Murata

ingres77's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asexual, convenience store woman, hikikomori, incel, Japan, Sayaka Murata ·
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Sometimes a Part-Time Job is Life Defining

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

December 31, 2020 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata My rating: 5 of 5 stars Keiko has been working at the same convenience store for 18 years. After coming across the store during a university internship, what was supposed to help her pay her student lifestyle suddenly became a more permanent job. This momentarily gets disrupted when an incel tries to manipulate her into colluding against society together. Keiko finds her voice again and stands up for herself and for what makes her feel useful. It’s not stated […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Sayaka Murata

The Chancellor's CBR12 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Sayaka Murata ·
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No Room for Exceptions

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

August 12, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

Keiko, 36 years old, unmarried, and childless, has been working at the same convenience store for the last 18 years. Aware of her own unusualness, she only feels at home in the store where she understands how to interact with people, and how to appear normal. Still, the pressures of society to conform by getting married, having children, or at least getting a more appropriate job, are always present. This is a sweet and short book that is on one hand firmly rooted in Japanese […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, happy, Sayaka Murata

blauracke's CBR12 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, happy, Sayaka Murata ·
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