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コンビニエンスストア様

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「コンビニ人間」で155回(2016年上半期)芥川賞を受賞し話題沸騰!
村田沙耶香さんが、愛するコンビニエンスストアに向け綴ったラブレター形式のエッセイ

≪前文お許しください。貴方と出会って17年ほどになりますが、こうしてお手紙を書くのは初めてのことですね。≫

作家、女優、映画監督など総勢26人が愛するものへの想いを綴ったアンソロジー『ラヴレターズ』(文藝春秋、2016年2月刊)。そこに収録され、偏執的なまでのコンビニ愛がクローズアップされた村田沙耶香さんのエッセイを、『コンビニ人間』発売に合わせて緊急無料配信します。
最終的に「コンビニと人間はセックスできるのか」という境地まで達する、新芥川賞作家の奇想とイマジネーションのうねり。是非『コンビニ人間』とあわせてお楽しみください!

15 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 27, 2016

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About the author

Sayaka Murata

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Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田 沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthquake, Waseda Bungaku, 2011) and "A Clean Marriage" (Granta 127: Japan, 2014).

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November 19, 2018
A love letter to the Convenience Store.
A very interesting short follow up piece to the novel. May be kind of interesting but at the same time, it puts the novel in context pretty nicely.
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