Convenience store woman
by 村田沙耶香, Nancy Wu, Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon, Albert Nolla Cabellos, Marina Bornas Montaña
村田沙耶香, Nancy Wu, Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon, Albert Nolla Cabellos, Marina Bornas Montaña · 2018 · 163 pages
ISBN 9780802128256
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…
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