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Ladataan... Convenience Store Woman (2016)– tekijä: Sayaka Murata
  
Books Read in 2019 (26) Books Read in 2020 (421) Top Five Books of 2018 (284) » 10 lisää Female Author (498) Female Protagonist (444) Japanese Literature (149) Books Read in 2018 (3,105) Litsy Awards 2018 (56) Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Olipa hauska pieni kirja! Keiko on samaan aikaan samaistuttava ja vieras, nainen jonka on sosiaalisesti haastavaa olla olemassa osana japanilaista yhteiskuntaa. Hän löytää selvitymiskeinoja jotka ovat liikuttavan nerokkaita kaikessa yksinkertaisuudessaan. Tarinassa on surullista muiden tarve mukauttaa kanssaihmiset samanlaisiksi kuin he itse ovat. Perinteinen yhteiskunta tuntuu lähinnä ahdistavalta. Yksityiskohtien ja niiden tuoman nautinnon kuvaaminen taas on raikasta ja ilahduttavaa. Suosittelen kaikille jotka tuntevat tai eivät tunne japanilaista kulttuuria. (  ) Iira | Dec 31, 2020 | 
...for all the disturbance and oddity in “Convenience Store Woman,” the book dares the reader to interpret it as a happy story about a woman who has managed to craft her own “good life.” Convenience Store Woman closely observes the inevitable failures of a society to embrace all within it, and the contrasting ways disenfranchised men and women manage to cope... Through the eyes of perceptive, dispassionate Keiko, the ways in which we’re all commodified and reduced to our functions become clear. What’s unclear is what other option we have. We all want to be individuals, and yet we also want to fit in somewhere. We all want to be seen for our own intangible humanity, and yet we see others for their utility. Murata’s slim and stunning Akutagawa Prize–winning novel follows 36-year-old Keiko Furukura, who has been working at the same convenience store for the last 18 years, outlasting eight managers and countless customers and coworkers.... Murata’s smart and sly novel, her English-language debut, is a critique of the expectations and restrictions placed on single women in their 30s. This is a moving, funny, and unsettling story about how to be a “functioning adult” in today’s world A sly take on modern work culture and social conformism, told through one woman’s 18-year tenure as a convenience store employee.... Murata provides deceptively sharp commentary on the narrow social slots people—particularly women—are expected to occupy and how those who deviate can inspire bafflement, fear, or anger in others.... A unique and unexpectedly revealing English language debut.  In Sayaka Murata’s “Convenience Store Woman,” a small, elegant and deadpan novel from Japan, a woman senses that society finds her strange, so she culls herself from the herd before anyone else can do it. She becomes an anonymous, long-term employee of the Hiiromachi Station Smile Mart, a convenience store, a kiosk for her floating soul...“Convenience Store Woman” has touched a chord in Japan, where it has sold close to 600,000 copies....I have mixed feelings about “Convenience Store Woman,” but there is no doubt that it is a thrifty and offbeat exploration of what we must each leave behind to participate in the world.
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? No library descriptions found. |
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