Description
Title: Factory
Author: Hiroko Oyamada
ISBN: 9780811228855
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Translation
Condition Note: New from the publisher
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The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they’ve been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work–days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What’s going on with the strange animals here? And after a while–it could be weeks or years–the three workers struggle to answer the most basic question: What am I doing here?
With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, The Factory casts a vivid–and sometimes surreal–portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.
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