Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
At the beginning I liked this book for bringing me into a different world.
Apparently it is written from a position of a autistic person who got a rather one-dimensional vision of life.
After few chapters I got enough of it, the author did not show a full picture of main character (Keiko) life so when in the later chapters she "discovers" people around her and learns their opinions, I found it not convincing.
Another point - in my opinion the translation to English is bit rough.
Even the title - Convenience store - such term is not used in plain language, I have no idea what kind of shop it is in Japan. I noticed that in German and Polish translations they just used Japanese term - Konbini.
Another example - Thank you for your custom - this phrase is used by the store personnel, sounds artificial to me.
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