Our Friends at the Convenience Store by the Sea
Will be published approx. on 26. November 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-3987-2882-0 (ISBN)
Description
Episode 1: "My Favorite Idol Heats Up Mojiko Port"
My favorite idol has come to Mojiko Port!
Nakao, a huge fan, rushes over to help, but it seems he has a problem.
Episode 2: "Hello, Friends"
What new step will a young housewife take, living away from her hometown?
Episode 3: "Storm in the Blossoms"
The devilish woman who deeply hurt the heart of Tsugi, the second son of the convenience store brothers, proposes a "fake romance"!?
An uplifting collection of three interconnected stories set in a 24/7 Japanese convenience store.
My favorite idol has come to Mojiko Port!
Nakao, a huge fan, rushes over to help, but it seems he has a problem.
Episode 2: "Hello, Friends"
What new step will a young housewife take, living away from her hometown?
Episode 3: "Storm in the Blossoms"
The devilish woman who deeply hurt the heart of Tsugi, the second son of the convenience store brothers, proposes a "fake romance"!?
An uplifting collection of three interconnected stories set in a 24/7 Japanese convenience store.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-3987-2882-0 (9781398728820)
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Our Friends at the Convenience Store by the Sea
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Sonoko Machida is an award-winning Japanese author, born in 1980 in Fukuoka Prefecture. In 2016, she won the Onna ni yoru onna no tame no R-18 bungakusho (By Women for Women R-18 Literature Prize) for Kamerun no aoi sakana (Blue Fish of Cameroon). Her masterpiece 52 herutsu no kujira-tachi (The 52-Hertz Whales), won the 2021 Japanese Booksellers' Award and became a bestseller with about half a million copies sold in Japan. Her two following novels, Hoshi wo sukuu (Scooping Up the Stars) and Sora gohan (Sora's Recipes), were both nominated for the award in consecutive years.