The surprise smash hit of 2018 now in paperback - Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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.
'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
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