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008 200818s2020 enk 000 f eng d
024 $a60002423015
035 $a(OCoLC)on1197761889
040 $aUKMGB$beng$erda$cUKMGB$dOCLCO$dSINLB$dOCLCO$dNZAUC$dYDX
020 $a9781526622242$q(paperback)
020 $a1526622246$q(paperback)
035 $a(OCoLC)1197761889
041 1 $aeng$hjpn
043 $aa-ja---
050 4 $aPL876.S86$bK6613 2020
082 04 $a895.636$223
100 1 $aTsumura, Kikuko,$d1978-$eauthor.
240 10 $aKono you ni tayasui shigoto wa nai.$lEnglish
245 10 $aThere's no such thing as an easy job /$cKikuko Tsumura ; translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton.
246 3 $aThere is no such thing as an easy job
264 1 $aLondon :$bBloomsbury Publishing,$c2020.
300 $a401 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aTranslated from the Japanese.
520 $a"A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing - and ideally, very little thinking. She is sent to a nondescript office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end can be so inconvenient and tiresome. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly - how did she find herself in this situation in the first place? As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful..."--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aYoung women$zJapan$vFiction.
650 0 $aBurn out (Psychology)$vFiction.
650 0 $aJob hunting$vFiction.
650 0 $aJob satisfaction$vFiction.
650 0 $aSelf-realization in women$vFiction.
655 7 $aJapanese fiction$vTranslations into English.$2local
700 1 $aBarton, Polly$c(Translator),$etranslator.
852 00 $beal$hPL876.S86$iK6613 2020g