Convenience Store Woman

A Novel

De: Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori

Narrado por: Nancy Wu

“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, The Guardian

Selling over a million copies in Japan and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and many other publications, Convenience Store Woman is both delightfully strange and oddly heartwarming.

Keiko Furukura is thirty-six, and she has been happily working at a Tokyo “Smile Mart” for eighteen years, fitting in by copying her colleagues’ dress and mannerisms, playing the part of a “normal person” excellently—more or less. But her packaged idyll is threatened by mounting pressure to find a husband and a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action to protect her peaceful world.

Charming and unforgettable, Convenience Store Woman is an international sensation by a brilliant writer whose work is finally being recognized outside of her native country.

©2018 Sayaka Murata (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio

A celebration of routine and neurodiversity

I never know what to expect when I start a book by Sayaka Murata, but I’m never disappointed. This is a tightly written, strangely charming story that treats society as a character. Murata deftly critiques social pressures-marriage, traditional careers-and asks who decides what a fulfilling life is.