Convenience Store Woman is both wry social novel and sensitive portrait, a heartfelt and brilliantly written novel. Reminiscent of the work of Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto, Convenience Store Woman follows a young woman who adores her dead-end job at a convenience store in Tokyo and doesn’t understand the concern of her friends and relatives who want her to settle down.There is already a lot of buzz behind this book and author. Rights have been sold in nine territories so far Grove conducted a four-way auction for UK & Commonwealth rights, selling to Granta Books, the UK publisher of The Vegetarian, which is a good comp title. Convenience Store Woman won Japan’s most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize. Murata has been a huge runaway bestseller in Japan, one of the highest selling literary novels of recent years, selling 660,000 hardcovers to date.
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