![]() ![]() This is the first time work by Kikuko Tsumura - winner of Japan's most prestigious literary award - and has been translated into English. ![]() But when she finally discovers an alternative to the daily grind, it comes with a price. As she moves from job to job - writing trivia for rice cracker packages and 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. ![]() (When can she go to the bathroom?) Her next gives way to the supernatural: announcing advertisements for shops that mysteriously disappear. Her first gig - watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods - turns out to be inconvenient. A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: It’s close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and, ideally, very little thinking. ![]()
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