02356cam a2200373 i 4500 1164678400 TxAuBib 20180709120000.0 171107s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017051049 9780802128256 hardcover 0802128254 hardcover (OCoLC)1005564733 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ ORX TOH ZAC WIMVL RIOSL CLE ILC TxAuBib rda eng jpn Murata, Sayaka, 1979-, author. Conbini ningen English. Convenience store woman / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. New York : Grove Press, 2018. 163 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in Japanese as Konbini ningen: Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 2016. "Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech patterns so that she can play the part of a normal person. However, eighteen years later, at age 36, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, and has only few friends. She feels comfortable in her life, but is aware that she is not living up to society's expectations and causing her family to worry about her. When a similarly alienated but cynical and bitter young man comes to work in the store, he will upset Keiko's contented stasis--but will it be for the better?" -- (Source of summary not specified.) 20180821. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Conformity Fiction. Convenience stores Japan Fiction. Japan Social life and customs Fiction. Takemori, Ginny Tapley, translator. TXKIP