The factory / Hiroko Oyamada ; translated from the Japanese by David Boyd.

In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents. Life in the factory has its own logic an...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Kōjō. English
New Directions paperbook ; 1460.
Main Author: Oyamada, Hiroko, 1983- (Author)
Other Authors: Boyd, David (David G.) (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Japanese
Published: New York : New Direction Books, 2019.
Series:New Directions paperbook ; 1460.
Subjects:
Factories > Employees > Fiction.
Industrial relations > Fiction.
Hallucinations and illusions > Fiction.
Japan > Fiction.
Factories > Employees.
Hallucinations and illusions.
Industrial relations.
Japan.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Satirical literature.
Humorous fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Satirical literature.
Humorous fiction.
Physical Description:116 pages ; 21 cm.
Format: Book

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