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Kenji Yamada has a critical wife, a hated mother-in-law and what he thinks is a job for life until his fortieth birthday teaches him otherwise. Initially too embarassed to tell his family that he has been fired, Kenji first befriends a travelling salesman with a passion for Elvis before taking up gambling, but his wife's outrage soon brings an end to this and sends him on a roller-coaster of misadventures.
Via a bizarre chain of happenstance - including being struck by lightning while wielding a golf club - Kenji somehow finds himself responsible for a weirdly believable game show...
Fiona Campbell's novel is a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy.
Via a bizarre chain of happenstance - including being struck by lightning while wielding a golf club - Kenji somehow finds himself responsible for a weirdly believable game show...
Fiona Campbell's novel is a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy.
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"This is an absolutely brilliant first novel" (Kate Saunders The Times)
"Fiona Campbell's comic caper is an entertaining overview of Japanese society's collision with the worst excesses of western culture" (Catherine Taylor Guardian)
"Kenji is the kind of luckless dreamer it's hard not to root for" (Hepzibah Anderson Observer)
"An enjoyably sentimental journey of self-discovery, the novel betrays no hint of dislocation between author and subject matter" (Financial Times)
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"Fiona Campbell's comic caper is an entertaining overview of Japanese society's collision with the worst excesses of western culture" (Catherine Taylor Guardian)
"Kenji is the kind of luckless dreamer it's hard not to root for" (Hepzibah Anderson Observer)
"An enjoyably sentimental journey of self-discovery, the novel betrays no hint of dislocation between author and subject matter" (Financial Times)
Imagine the literary lovechild of Marina Lewycka and Murakami and you get close to Death of a Salaryman, a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy, set in contemporary Japan.
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- EditoreVintage
- Data di pubblicazione2008
- ISBN 10 0099503697
- ISBN 13 9780099503699
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine368
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Descrizione libro Condizione: Very Good. 2008. Reprint. Paperback. Tells the story of a Japanese salaryman who loses his job at a TV corporation, on his 40th birthday, and slips through to a different layer of society. This novel captures the fast-changing culture of Japan and its surreal underside in a portrait of an ordinary man battling with the contradictory demands of contemporary life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 245. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo KNW0008634
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Descrizione libro Condizione: Very Good. 2008. Reprint. Paperback. Tells the story of a Japanese salaryman who loses his job at a TV corporation, on his 40th birthday, and slips through to a different layer of society. This novel captures the fast-changing culture of Japan and its surreal underside in a portrait of an ordinary man battling with the contradictory demands of contemporary life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 245. . . . . . Codice articolo KNW0008634
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Descrizione libro Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Vintage Book Edition. Paperback. Kenji Yamada has a critical wife, a hated mother-in-law and what he thinks is a job for life until his fortieth birthday teaches him otherwise. Initially too embarrassed to tell his family that he has been fired, Kenji first befriends a travelling salesman with a passion for Elivs before taking up gambling, but his wife's outrage soon brings as ned to this and sends him on a roller-coaaster of misadventures. Via a bizarre chain of happenstance - including being struck by lightening while wielding a golf club - Kenji somehow finds himself responsible for a weirdly believable game show.359 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Codice articolo 088267
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