The Factory (eBook)

Hiroko Oyamada (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
128 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
978-0-8112-2886-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.10.2019
• Übersetzer: David Boyd
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Anti-Capitalism • Capitalism • contemporary female • contemporary female japanese writer • contemporary japanese fiction • Dystopia • female japanese writer • hallucination • japanese novel • magical realism • novels about work • Science Fiction • Severance • surreal fiction • surrealist japanese fiction • surreal japanese fiction
• ISBN-10: 0-8112-2886-X / 081122886X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2886-2 / 9780811228862