Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (Signed 1st Edition, 2018)

This Portobello Books first edition in English translation (2018) is of interest to collectors of Sayaka Murata first editions, contemporary Japanese fiction in translation, and international bestsellers.

About: Near fine first edition, fifth impression, signed by the author in Japanese characters to the title page. Bright and fresh with minimal wear: a striking and desirable signed copy of Murata's internationally celebrated novel, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

Details:

• Title: Convenience Store Woman
• Author: Sayaka Murata
• Translator: Ginny Tapley Takemori
• Publisher: Portobello Books, London
• Publication Date: 2018
• Edition: 1st Edition, 5th Impression (first English-language edition)
• Binding: Softcover
• Signed: Yes – signed by the author in Japanese to the title page
• ISBN: 978 1 84627 683 5
• Condition: Near Fine
• Cover Condition: Near Fine (unclipped)

Synopsis: First English-language edition, Portobello Books imprint, signed by Sayaka Murata to the title page. An international bestseller translated into over 30 languages. A highly desirable signed copy for collectors of contemporary world fiction.

Review: Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman is a darkly comic and quietly subversive novel narrated by Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old woman who has worked in the same convenience store for eighteen years and finds in its rigid routines the only sense of belonging she has ever known. Translated with precision and wit by Ginny Tapley Takemori, the novel is a sharp and affectionate satire of social conformity, gender expectations, and the pressure to be normal. Originally published in Japan as Konbini Ningen (2016), it became an international phenomenon and won the Akutagawa Prize.