The Dilemmas of Working Women
The Japanese Bestseller
Fumio Yamamoto author Brian Bergstrom translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Publishing:3rd Jul '25
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 3rd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time - a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women
Izumi 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.
The Dilemmas of Working Women is a delight. With acute insight and sly humour, Fumio Yamamoto depicts the lives of modern Japanese women in all their complexity. The characters, in their quirky idiosyncrasies, are deeply familiar; their stoicisms heartbreaking * Yoon Choi, author of Skinship *
What an engaging, witty, and unique book. So brilliantly written that I kept trying to memorise sentences in order to repeat them to people later. What a win for the English language that we're finally getting to experience Yamamoto's inimitable voice -- Roxy Dunn, author of As Young as This
ISBN: 9780349019215
Dimensions: 222mm x 138mm x 22mm
Weight: unknown
288 pages