From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you’ve read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband’s dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their dead by eat…
Dunia menuntut Keiko untuk menjadi normal, walau ia tidak tahu “normal” itu seperti apa. Namun di minimarket, Keiko dilahirkan dengan identitas baru sebagai “pegawai minimarket”. Kini Keiko terancam dipisahkan dari dunia minimarket yang dicintainya selama ini.
Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married.But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store