Author Sayaka Murata . Online shopping from a great selection at Books Store. In “Convenience Store Woman,” her first novel to be translated into English, a strange and alienating job suits a strange and alienated person. Sayaka Murata (村田沙耶香 Murata Sayaka; born August 14, 1979) is a Japanese writer.She has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize. This is a love story. Sayaka Murata’s hit novel from recent years, Convenience Store Woman is a darkly comic look at the life of--you gue ‘ In 2020 the “essential worker” became a hot topic of conversation. The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. 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