Death of a Salaryman by Fiona Cambell
IMAGINE THE LITERARY LOVECHILD OF MARINA LEWYCKA AND HARUKI MURAKAMI AND YOU GET CLOSE TO DEATH OF A SALARYMAN, A SPARKLING DEBUT WITH GRAPHIC-NOVEL SHARPNESS HUMOUR AND POIGNANCY, SET IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of a Japanese salaryman who loses his job at a TV corporation, on his fortieth birthday, and slips through to a different layer of existence.
Fresh, original and funny without signalling its humour, this unusual first novel brilliantly captures the fast-changing culture of Japan and its underside in an appealing portrait of an ordinary man battling with the contradictory demands of contemporary life.
IMAGINE THE LITERARY LOVECHILD OF MARINA LEWYCKA AND HARUKI MURAKAMI AND YOU GET CLOSE TO DEATH OF A SALARYMAN, A SPARKLING DEBUT WITH GRAPHIC-NOVEL SHARPNESS HUMOUR AND POIGNANCY, SET IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of a Japanese salaryman who loses his job at a TV corporation, on his fortieth birthday, and slips through to a different layer of existence.
Fresh, original and funny without signalling its humour, this unusual first novel brilliantly captures the fast-changing culture of Japan and its underside in an appealing portrait of an ordinary man battling with the contradictory demands of contemporary life.
IMAGINE THE LITERARY LOVECHILD OF MARINA LEWYCKA AND HARUKI MURAKAMI AND YOU GET CLOSE TO DEATH OF A SALARYMAN, A SPARKLING DEBUT WITH GRAPHIC-NOVEL SHARPNESS HUMOUR AND POIGNANCY, SET IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of a Japanese salaryman who loses his job at a TV corporation, on his fortieth birthday, and slips through to a different layer of existence.
Fresh, original and funny without signalling its humour, this unusual first novel brilliantly captures the fast-changing culture of Japan and its underside in an appealing portrait of an ordinary man battling with the contradictory demands of contemporary life.
ISBN: 978-0-701-18095-9
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