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From the author of Weasels in the Attic, here is a modern fable about the all-consuming world of work.

Mit feinem Gespür für das Beunruhigende in einer sich auf rätselhafte Weise verändernden Welt erzählt Hiroko Oyamada vom Leben einer jungen Frau, die zwischen Arbeit und Familie auf der Suche nach ihrem eigenen Leben ist. «Hiroko Oyamada fördert den Schrecken des vorhersehbaren Wandels zutage - die Unvermeidlichkeit unseres Seins und unserer Bestimmung.»  The New York Times Hiroko Oyamada zählt zu den wichtigsten weiblichen Stimmen...

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Two friends meet across three dinners. Fish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man's journey toward impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist.

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Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes ...

In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents. Life in the factory has its own logic and momentum, and, eventually, the factory slowly expands and begins to take over everything, enveloping these poor workers. The very margins of real...