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There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
Taschenbuch von Kikuko Tsumura
Sprache: Englisch

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_______________'Surreal and unsettling' - Observer Cultural Highlight

'Wise, comical and exceptionally relatable'
- Zeba Talkhani

'Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny rhythms and deadpan absurdity of the daily grind' - Sharlene Teo
_______________

A woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no reading, no writing - and ideally, very little thinking.

She is sent to an office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end isn't so easy. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly - how did she find herself in this situation in the first place?

As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful...
_______________'An irreverent but thoughtful voice, with light echoes of Haruki Murakami ... the book is uncannily timely ... a novel as smart as is quietly funny' - Financial Times'Polly Barton's translation skilfully captures the protagonist's dejected, anxious voice and her deadpan humour ... imaginative and unusual' - Times Literary Supplement
_______________'Surreal and unsettling' - Observer Cultural Highlight

'Wise, comical and exceptionally relatable'
- Zeba Talkhani

'Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny rhythms and deadpan absurdity of the daily grind' - Sharlene Teo
_______________

A woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no reading, no writing - and ideally, very little thinking.

She is sent to an office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end isn't so easy. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly - how did she find herself in this situation in the first place?

As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful...
_______________'An irreverent but thoughtful voice, with light echoes of Haruki Murakami ... the book is uncannily timely ... a novel as smart as is quietly funny' - Financial Times'Polly Barton's translation skilfully captures the protagonist's dejected, anxious voice and her deadpan humour ... imaginative and unusual' - Times Literary Supplement
Über den Autor
Kikuko Tsumura
Zusammenfassung
For fans of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (45,703 TCM), Not Working by Lisa Owen (33,982 TCM), the works of Miranda July - as well as avid watchers of Netflix hits Midnight Diner and Terrace House. Bloomsbury's first publication of There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job has sold over 32,000 copies
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 416 S.
ISBN-13: 9781526622259
ISBN-10: 1526622254
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 471750
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tsumura, Kikuko
Übersetzung: Polly Barton
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Maße: 198 x 132 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Kikuko Tsumura
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,338 kg
Artikel-ID: 119629770
Über den Autor
Kikuko Tsumura
Zusammenfassung
For fans of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (45,703 TCM), Not Working by Lisa Owen (33,982 TCM), the works of Miranda July - as well as avid watchers of Netflix hits Midnight Diner and Terrace House. Bloomsbury's first publication of There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job has sold over 32,000 copies
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 416 S.
ISBN-13: 9781526622259
ISBN-10: 1526622254
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 471750
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tsumura, Kikuko
Übersetzung: Polly Barton
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Maße: 198 x 132 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Kikuko Tsumura
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,338 kg
Artikel-ID: 119629770
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