How long does it take to read Convenience Store Woman?
Sayaka Murata, Nancy Wu, Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon, Albert Nolla Cabellos, Marina Bornas Montaña
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Nancy Wu, Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon, Albert Nolla Cabellos, Marina Bornas Montaña takes about 2 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 59 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2018. 163 pages, about 44,825 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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?
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Social life and customers, Clerks (Retail trade), Fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Japan, fiction
