Dilemmas of Working Women

The classic Japanese feminist fiction that inspired Asako Yuzuki, author of Butter

AvFumio Yamamoto

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time - a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women'Witty, wise and thought-provoking' Cecelia Ahern'Crackles and pops with humour, empathy and intelligence' Lisa Owens, author of Not Working'So brilliantly written that I kept trying to memorise sentences in order to repeat them to people later' Roxy Dunn, author of As Young as ThisIzumi needs to get a job. Haruka needs to stop talking about how she once had cancer. Katō needs to get through a shift at the convenience store without being harassed.Mito needs to break up with her boyfriend - or marry him.Sumie just needs somewhere to live. In this classic Japanese bestseller, published in English twenty-five years after it took Japan by storm, the lives of five ordinary women are depicted with irresistible humour and searing emotional insight.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-03
Mått:140 x 214 x 28 mm
Vikt:412 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:9780349019215
Översättare:Brian Bergstrom

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Fumio Yamamoto burst onto the Japanese literary scene in 1999 when she won the Yoshikawa Eiji New Writer's Prize for her book Loveaholic. Her follow-up in 2000, The Dilemmas of Working Women, won the prestigious Naoki Prize in Literature, before becoming a bestselling phenomenon. Her final novel, Rotations and Revolutions, was awarded both the Shimasei Literature Prize and the Chūō Kōron Prize in 2021, and her journals, offering an intimate portrait of dealing with depression and then with pancreatic cancer, also became hugely popular. Yamamoto passed away in 2021 in Karuizawa, Nagano.Brian Bergstrom is a lecturer and translator who has lived in Chicago, Kyoto, and Yokohama, and is currently based in Montréal. His most recent translations include Sunrise: Radiant Stories by award-winning author Erika Kobayashi and Slow Down by Marxist philosopher Kōhei Saitō.

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Fumio Yamamoto is one of my greatest inspirations. She was a writer who changed the entire Japanese literary world, but always stuck by her female readership. Her work celebrated the lived experiences of Japanese women in all their complexity. One of my deepest sorrows is that I'll never be able to read a new story of hers again.