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by 桐野夏生

YakuzaFictionJapanese fictionTranslations into EnglishTokyo (japan), fiction
3.9
Open Library
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About this book

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.

Themes & subjects

YakuzaFictionJapanese fictionTranslations into EnglishTokyo (japan), fictionCrime, fiction

Setting

Japan

About the author

桐野夏生
桐野夏生

7 October 1951

Natsuo Kirino (born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture) is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction. Kirino is the middle child of three. She has two brothers, one who is six years older and one who is five years younger. Her father was an architect. Kirino has lived in many different cities, including her current residence, Tokyo. Kirino married in 1975 and had a daughter in 1981. She earned a law degree in 1974 from Seikei University, and she dabbled in many fields of work before settling on being a writer. For example, not knowing what she wanted to do in life, Kirino began working at t…

Author

桐野夏生

Pages

388

Read time

≈ 10h

Editions

8

Language

English

Publisher

Sound Library

ISBN

9780792739708

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