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ISBN-10: 0811228851
ISBN-13: 9780811228855
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/29/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.00" W, 0.40" H

The Factory

Translator: David Boyd

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Price: $13.95

Overview

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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A proletarian novella for today's world.–Rieko Matsuura
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811228851
ISBN-13: 9780811228855
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/29/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.00" W, 0.40" H
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