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Author Tsumura, Kikuko, 1978- author.

Title There's no such thing as an easy job / Kikuko Tsumura ; translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION TSUMURA    DUE 05-13-24
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION TSUMURA    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FIC TSUM    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  TSUMURA, KIKUKO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC TSUMURA, K    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Paperback Book  F TSUMURA KIKUKO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F TSUMURA KIKUKO    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC TSUMURA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-TSUMURA    Check Shelf
Description 401 pages ; 22 cm
Note Originally published in Japan by Nikkei Publishing Inc.
Translated from the Japanese.
Summary "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. She is sent to a nondescript 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 can be so inconvenient and tiresome. 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..."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Young women -- Japan -- Fiction.
Burn out (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Job hunting -- Fiction.
Job satisfaction -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Added Author Barton, Polly (Translator), translator.
Added Title Kono you ni tayasui shigoto wa nai. English
There is no such thing as an easy job
ISBN 9781635576917 (paperback)
1635576911 (paperback)
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