いくつもの壁にぶつかりながら

by Sayaka Murata, 村田 沙耶香

売春宿に売られ、電気ショックを与えられながら働かされている幼い少女たち。
彼女たちを助けたい。世界の児童買春をなくしたい――
「ふつうの女子大生」がはじめた社会起業NPO法人かものはしプロジェクト。
挫折や失敗を繰り返しながらも、彼女の「想い」が、多くの人々の支援と共感を集めていく。
いま、テレビや雑誌で話題の社会起業家による、勇気の出るノンフィクション。

251 pages, Hardcover

Published June 13, 2009

About the author

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).