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There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

Contemporary LiteratureLiterary Fiction
Pages
417
Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

A woman seeks an undemanding job, hoping for minimal thought and effort. She finds herself in a series of peculiar roles, from monitoring a suspected author to writing bus adverts for shops that vanish. Through these increasingly strange experiences, she discovers her true search is not for an easy life, but for something far more significant.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

WhimsicalThought-ProvokingFunnySatirical
Fish Out of Water

Genres

Contemporary Literature Literary Fiction Magical Realism

About the author

K
Kikuko Tsumura

Kikuko Tsumura (born January 23, 1978) is a Japanese novelist from Osaka. She won the 140th Akutagawa Prize in 2009 for Potosu Raimu no Fune (The Lime Pothos Boat), and her fiction, much of it drawing on her own experience of office work, has also received the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Tanizaki Prize. Her novel There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job, translated into English in 2020, follows a woman drifting between odd jobs in contemp...

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