Convenience Store Woman

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?

3 edizioni

176, pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 26 Novembre 2019 da Granta Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-84627-684-2
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meowsoni@sticky.social ha recensito Convenience store woman di Sayaka Murata

Reread it!

4,0 stars

I remember reading it for the first time on a train journey from Edinburgh in 2022, and thinking this was fun! Its idiosyncracy was freeing, and I found it comforting—this idea of life with a well mannered routine, made up of cues. Was my life a feedback loop too? Then I read it again cos Kirti was reading it, and found that it was kind of eerie. It refuses any consolation but also does not allow you to pity Keiko (at least I could not—but why not?)

cretinodicrescenzago ha recensito La ragazza del convenience store di Sayaka Murata

Come scoprii il romanzo realistico antiabilista

5,0 stars

Quando lessi La ragazza del convenience store a suo tempo, appena ventitreenne, lo commentai come segue:

Un piccolo spaccato di vita giapponese, dalla prospettiva di una protagonista molto sui generis. Sospeso fra tragedia e racconto di maturazione. Davvero appassionante.

Ora che trascrivo la recensione su Bookwyrm, senza neanche doverlo rileggere, mi sento di aggiungere questo: la protagonista non è solo sui generis, è una donna probabilmente neurodivergente che si rivendica di vivere la cazzo di vita che vuole e vaffanculo le aspettative sociali. Keiko eroina universale, porcogiuda!

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14 Gennaio 2020