Screen LibraryDiary of a void : a novel / Emi Yagi ; translated from the Japanese by David Boyd and Lucy North.
"When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace-a company that manufactures cardboard tubes-she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't cle...
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Penguin Books,
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| Publisher Address: | [New York] : |
| Publication Dates: |
2023. ©2022 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | [paperback Penguin Books edition] |
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"When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace-a company that manufactures cardboard tubes-she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups-because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is ... Ms. Shibata is not pregnant."-- |
| Item Description: | "Originally published in Japanese as 'Kūshin techō' by Chikumashobo Ltd., Tokyo, in 2020 ... Copyright ©2020 by Emi Yagi. Translation copyright ©2022 by David Boyd and Lucy North."--Title page verso |
| Carrier Form: | 213 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780143136880 0143136887 |
| Index Number: | PL877 |
| CLC: | I313.45 |
| Call Number: | I313.45/Y129-2 |