Hiroko Oyamada

The Factory (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Boyd, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamadaone of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan

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 workdays 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 whileit could be weeks or yearsthe 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 vividand sometimes surrealportrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811228862
• Artikelnr.: 59589581

Autorenporträt

Born in Hiroshima in 1983, Hiroko Oyamada won the Shincho Prize for New Writers for The Factory, which was drawn from her experiences working as a temp for an automaker's subsidiary. Her novel The Hole won Akutagawa Prize.