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In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents.
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Contemporary, prestige, contemplative and open-ended.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- 小山田浩子, David Boyd
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- New Directions, New Directions Publishing Corporation, Granta Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780811228862
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