3.9
Literatura Obyczajowa
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 a job in a convenience store while at the university, they are delighted. For her part, she finds a predictable world in the convenience store, 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 thirty-six, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, and has only a few friends. She feels comfortable in her life but is aware that she is not living up to society’s expectations, 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?
Sayaka Murata brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the familiar convenience store that is so much a part of life in Japan. With some laugh-out-loud moments prompted by the disconnect between Keiko’s thoughts and those of the people around her, she provides a sharp look at Japanese society and the pressure to conform, as well as penetrating insights into the female mind.
Convenience Store Woman is a fresh, charming portrait of an unforgettable heroine that recalls Banana Yoshimoto, Han Kang, and Amélie.
© 2018 Blackstone Publishing (Audiobook): 9781538555651
Tłumaczenie: Ginny Tapley Takemori
Data wydania
Audiobook: 11 września 2018
3.9
Literatura Obyczajowa
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 a job in a convenience store while at the university, they are delighted. For her part, she finds a predictable world in the convenience store, 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 thirty-six, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, and has only a few friends. She feels comfortable in her life but is aware that she is not living up to society’s expectations, 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?
Sayaka Murata brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the familiar convenience store that is so much a part of life in Japan. With some laugh-out-loud moments prompted by the disconnect between Keiko’s thoughts and those of the people around her, she provides a sharp look at Japanese society and the pressure to conform, as well as penetrating insights into the female mind.
Convenience Store Woman is a fresh, charming portrait of an unforgettable heroine that recalls Banana Yoshimoto, Han Kang, and Amélie.
© 2018 Blackstone Publishing (Audiobook): 9781538555651
Tłumaczenie: Ginny Tapley Takemori
Data wydania
Audiobook: 11 września 2018
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Agnes
1 gru 2020
This book follows Keiko, a store worker. She loves her job more than anything else and her entire purpose is to work in a convience store. However, as she faces more and more judgements from colleagues, friends, and other people, about being a 36-year-old, single, part-time store worker, she tries to figure out what to do or say to people to not seem weird and to be accepted.I enjoyed listening to this book, it gave me things to think about and it was deliciously weird and unexpected.
Jackie
29 mar 2023
Skończyłam tą książkę tylko dlatego, że była bardzo krótka. Trochę irytująca a trochę interesująca, ale w bardzo łopatologiczny sposób.
hola
6 paź 2023
Straszy lektor, całość czytana jakby z zatkanym nosem
Angelika
5 wrz 2023
Ciekawa historia nieoczywista dużo spostrzeżeń o naturze człowieka.
Dorota
17 sty 2023
Be yourself, do not bend yourself to fit to the rules and demands of others.
Ivona
24 paź 2022
Krótka historia o tym ze najlepiej jest być sobą niezważającej na to jakie normy narzuca nam społeczeństwo.
Margaret
14 gru 2022
Great!
Ewa
6 sty 2024
Weird and depressing though it is, worth reading
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