There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Tsumura, Kikuko
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Tsumura, Kikuko

There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'--NPR A revelation.--Time A young woman walks into an...
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There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Tsumura, Kikuko

There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

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There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Tsumura, Kikuko

There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

$35.29
Author: Kikuko Tsumura
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'--NPR

A revelation.--Time

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking.

Her first gig--watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods--turns out to be inconvenient. (When can she go to the bathroom?) Her next gives way to the supernatural: announcing advertisements for shops that mysteriously disappear. As she moves from job to job--writing trivia for rice cracker packages; punching entry tickets to a purportedly haunted public park--it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful. And when she finally discovers an alternative to the daily grind, it comes with a price.

This is the first time Kikuko Tsumura--winner of Japan's most prestigious literary award--has been translated into English. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job is as witty as it is unsettling--a jolting look at the maladies of late capitalist life through the unique and fascinating lens of modern Japanese culture.

Author: Kikuko Tsumura
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 03/23/2021
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781635576917


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2020
Booklist 01/01/2021 pg. 36
Publishers Weekly 01/25/2021
Shelf Awareness 03/26/2021

About the Author

Kikuko Tsumura is a writer from Osaka, Japan. She is the winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and numerous Japanese literary awards including the Akutagawa Prize, Noma Literary Prize, Dazai Osamu Prize, and a New Artist award.

Polly Barton is a translator based in Bristol. Winner of the Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs's International Translation Competition, she has received the Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize and the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize.
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