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What has become of the office? Its small, mundane daily rituals, its smells – of over-boiled coffee, synthetic fabrics, other people’s perfume – the low hum of phone conversations and the whirring of the printer. To those of us who are still working from home, it feels like a faraway place, a half-forgotten memory, and to those who have returned it is utterly transformed: masked, distanced, hushed.
It’s a strange time to be appraising the workplace novel. Will things return to how they were before, or will we look back on our time of working long, gruelling hours in the office with relief, or even nostalgia? I wonder if books set in offices will make us wistful about some aspects of pre-pandemic life or if, instead, these narratives will act as a warning against returning to a working culture that felt, to many of us, unreliable and unstable.
There s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, Kikuko Tsumura s first novel translated into English
12 Mar, 2021 08:00 PM
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By: Kiran Dass With multiple lockdowns and the shift to many people working from home and workplaces becoming more flexible and adaptable over the past year, many people s attitudes to what pop philosopher Alain de Botton refers to as the pleasures and sorrows of work has shifted dramatically. Work is a four-lettered word, and workers are becoming increasingly aware of burnout and the quest for more meaningful work.
This is the first novel translated into English (by Polly Barton) from the Japanese by Osaka-based writer Kikuko Tsumura. It s been compared to acclaimed books My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh and Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata – and, like those novels, it will chime with anyone suffering late-capitalism fatigue, workplace burnout and employment precarity anxiety.
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