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Author Oyamada, Hiroko, 1983- author.

Title The factory / by Hiroko Oyamada ; translated by David Boyd.

Publication Info. New York : New Direction Books, [2019]
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F OYAMADA, H.    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F OYAMADA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC OYAMADA, H    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F OYAMADA, H.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F OYAMADA, HIROKO    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  OYAMADA    Check Shelf
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Description 116 pages ; 21 cm.
Series New Directions paperbook ; 1460
New Directions paperbook ; 1460.
Note "Originally published in 2013 as Kojo by Shinchosha Publishing Co., Tokyo"--Title page verso.
Summary 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 reality seem to be dissolving: all forms of life capriciously evolve, strange creatures begin to appear. After a while, it could be weeks or years, the workers don't even have the ability to ask themselves: where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? Told in three alternating first-person narratives, The Factory casts a vivid--if sometimes surreal--portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of modern life. With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, Hiroko Oyamada is one of the boldest writers of her generation.
Language Translated from the Japanese.
Subject Factories -- Employees -- Fiction.
Industrial relations -- Fiction.
Hallucinations and illusions -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.
Factories -- Employees. (OCoLC)fst00919662
Hallucinations and illusions. (OCoLC)fst00950645
Industrial relations. (OCoLC)fst00971609
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Satirical fiction. (OCoLC)fst02007227
Psychological fiction.
Satirical fiction.
Added Author Translation of : Oyamada, Hiroko, 1983- Kōjō. English.
Boyd, David (David G.), translator.
Added Title Kōjō. English
ISBN 9780811228855 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0811228851 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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