There's no such thing as an easy job

Author

Kikuko Tsumura

Call Number

• FICTION TSUM (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Physical Description

401 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing - and ideally, very little thinking. She is sent to a nondescript office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end can be so inconvenient and tiresome. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly--how did she find herself in this situation in the first place? As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful..."--

Notes

"Originally published in Japan by Nikkei Publishing Inc., Tokyo." -- title page verso.

"Copyright ©2015 by Kikuko Tsumura." -- Verso.

In English, translated from the Japanese.

Contents

• The surveillance job
• The bus advertising job
• The cracker packet job
• The postering job
• The easy job in the hut in the big forest.