Started Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - no spoilers - I’m enjoying it so much it’s not what I expected. Stepping into Keiko’s mind has been brilliant. Anyone else reading? #ConvenienceStoreWoman #FediBookClub #SayakaMurata what book club # are people using?
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The popular cozy and quirky fiction showed no signs of decline, but there were two big surprises from two ghostly figures — Uketsu and Osamu Dazai. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/14/books/japanese-literature-2025/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #japaneseliterature #2025inreview #translatedliterature #fiction #uketsu #osamudazai #sayakamurata #akutagawaprize
A Japanese book club in India has drawn thousands of eager readers and built a bridge between cultures along the way. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/04/26/our-lives/mazumdar-dokusha-book-club/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #ourlives #japaneseliterature #india #indiancommunity #indiajapanrelations #delhi #newdelhi #izumisuzuki #sayakamurata #ginnytapleytakemori #saouichikawa #michikoaoyama
If you've not read the short novel Convenience Store Woman yet, please do. There is so much pleasure to be found in what may look to others as a very modest life.
This interview shows its author, #SayakaMurata , as Exactly as I had imagined her to be. Knows all about living as an alien in a world that objectifies her body. Just ordered all her others in translation from our wonderful local library.
Recommend her work, esp for my #ActuallyAutistic pals
Sayaka Murata's Vanishing Word is out in English next week! ❤️ (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/19/marriage-feels-like-a-hostage-situation-and-motherhood-a-curse-japanese-author-sayaka-murata
#TheVanishingWorld by #SayakaMurata is featured in yesterday's #Newbooks roundup on YouTube!
watch here: https://youtu.be/T-9an5cG7zI and buy the books here: https://bookshop.org/lists/new-releases-science-fiction-fantasy-horror-books-week-of-4-15-2025 ( ALL LINKS IN BIO )
From the author who brought you “woman who’s one with a convenience store” and “woman who’s sure she’s an alien” comes a brand new dystopian adventure — “woman with 40 imaginary lovers.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/04/14/books/sayaka-murata-vanishing-world/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #sayakamurata #ginnytapleytakemori
From the deadly serious and deeply weird to the fluffiest of diversions, Japanese literature in the 2020s is a booming and eclectic realm. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/12/15/books/japanese-literature-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #books #literature #translation #miekokawakami #sayakamurata #yumiri #asakoyuzuki #yokoogawa #yokotawada #hiromikawakami #harukimurakami
I’ve started reading Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. I’m half way through and have no idea where this is going.
𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀” 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗮 -
Murata's controversial and challenging novel is not for the squeamish and maybe not for most. Themes? Yes. Gratuitous offense? Also yes.
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Five of the best body horror novels https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/18/five-of-the-best-body-horror-novels #SayakaMurata #StephenKing #Culture #HanKang #Books
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗮 -
I've been warned that this is not as "hilarious" as it has been billed, but will nonetheless be an unsettling read. Is it really about aliens? I smell a displacement . .
Author Sayaka Murata's use of marked and unmarked language provides new layers to a commentary on modern society. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2024/03/22/language/sayaka-murata-convenience-store-woman-japanese-novels/ #life #language #literature #nihongo #vocabulary #grammar #books #sayakamurata
The book’s gore and guts make for a fun, zany stage adaptation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/02/24/stage/earthlings-sayaka-murata/ #culture #stage #earthlings #sayakamurata #uzumetheater
Translated novels sold a total of some 2 million copies in Britain in 2023, and Japanese works accounted for one-quarter of those sold. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/01/25/books/japanese-literature-boom-britain/?utm_content=buffer92b54&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #culture #books #tiktok #bananayoshimoto #miekokawakami #sayakamurata #pushkinpress
My dream genre is modern aromantic gothic flavoured honkaku mystery preferably set in somewhere that isn't US. It seems like my taste is more "feel" based than genre based.
Want to fhfjksiekxka with me about any of these? Just @ me!
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Robert Campbell interviews Sayaka Murata for NHK World’s Face To Face.
Murata Sayaka: Revealing Truth Through Fantasy - Face To Face | NHK WORLD-JAPAN On Demand
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