[PRE-ORDER] The Convenience Store by the Sea (Expected 31/01/2025)

Celebrating the joy of connection and community, The Convenience Store by the Sea is the heartwarming international bestseller from award-winning Japanese novelist Sonoko Machida. Translated by Bruno Navasky.

A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness.

At first glance, it's a store like any other.

Sure, it's a bit odd that the handsome manager has his own fan club. And perhaps the customers are somewhat eccentric. But there's a warmth about Tenderness that draws you in.

The bright lights are always on. The employees know you by name. And the shelves are stacked with delicious treats, from strong hot coffee to sweet parfaits, egg sandos to ramen, crispy fried chicken to refreshing soba.

After a while, you get the feeling that whatever you need might just be waiting for you here...

About the Author

Sonoko Machida is an award-winning Japanese author, born in 1980 in Fukuoka Prefecture. 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.

About the Translator

Bruno Navasky is a teacher and writer in New York City. He has poems, reviews, and translations in The New York Times, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He has edited three anthologies of verse, Festival in My Heart: Poems by Japanese Children (1993), Sixty Years of American Poetry (1996), and Poem in Your Pocket for Young Poets (2011). A recent translation is How Do You Live by Genzaburo Yoshino (2021).