The Dilemmas of Working Women

TRANSLATED BY BRIAN BERGSTROM'An offbeat, bold and subversive portrait of contemporary womanhood, full of brilliantly unconventional characters' Lisa Owens, author of Not WorkingIzumi needs to get a job. Haruka needs to stop talking about how she once had cancer. Kat¿ 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.'Here are people caught between loss and regeneration. The struggles of their forlorn hearts are depicted with a light, graceful touch. There will come a point in all of our lives when we will need Fumio Yamamoto's writing' Saou Ichikawa, author of the International Booker Prize-longlisted Hunchback'Witty, wise and thought-provoking, these darkly comic stories portray five unique women as they deal with the societal pressures that come with being a woman in their world' Cecelia Ahern, bestselling author of P.S. I Love You'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' Roxy Dunn, author of As Young As This