“Convenience Store Woman” Sayaka Murata (2016) Review | Ordinary yet mad

Convenience Store Woman 
Sayaka Murata, 2016
コンビニ人間
村田沙耶香
Read in 2020.03
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✔ A popular Japanese modern fiction
✔ Woman against expectations of the society
✔ Today's Japanese society


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★☆ Something so painfully normal and boring yet full of madness. Then she realises, she didn't just end up being a convenience store woman, this is her true self.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

I always saw the book in bookshops in London but of course I wanted to read it in Japanese so I wanted a bit.
Completely unpredictable.

Somehow I thought it was a love story about a girl working in a convenience store, but of course it was everything but.
It was about no-love-story, it was about something so painfully normal and boring yet full of madness.
It's a pleasant surprise that people not living in Japan get this.

She's getting close to 40 years old, not married, not doing a "grown up's job", no kids, no boyfriend.
It's the "other side" that anyone, I mean everyone, could end up on, but then she realises, she didn't just end up being a convenience store woman, this is her true self.

She doesn't give a sh*t, she is clever and quick.
She can actually defeat the loser guy in arguments, and you just cannot predict the next step, anything can happen.
It's short, and in a way a feel-good book, and for me ends with a happy ending.
 

🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Convenience Store Woman: A Novel 

●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Convenience Store Woman: Sayaka Murata

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
La ragazza del convenience store (italiano)