コンビニ人間 | Convenience Store Woman

Title: コンビニ人間
Authors: 村田　沙耶香 著
Pages: 151P
Published At: July, 2016
Description:
Keiko Furakura is a 36-year-old unmarried woman who has never held a full-time job since graduating university and is now in her 18th year working part-time at a convenience store, having never had a boyfriend. She sustains herself on convenience store food, dreams of ringing up transactions at the register, and finds peaceful sleep in the clean, orderly world of the convenience store and its welcoming greeting of "Irasshaimase!" One day, a new male coworker named Shirohane arrives with marriage prospects in mind and confronts her about the shame of her convenience store-centered lifestyle—but what does "normal" really mean? This shocking work poses questions about modern existence with remarkable lightness. Winner of the 155th Akutagawa Prize.

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