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Item Details
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DEATH OF A SALARYMAN
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| By: |
Fiona Campbell |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099503697 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099503699 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2008 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
Tells the story of a Japanese salaryman who loses his job at a TV corporation, on his 40th birthday, and slips through to a different layer of society. This novel captures the fast-changing culture of Japan and its surreal underside in a portrait of an ordinary man battling with the contradictory demands of contemporary life. |
| Synopsis: |
Kenji Yamada has a critical wife, a hated mother-in-law and what he thinks is a job for life until his fortieth birthday teaches him otherwise. Initially too embarassed to tell his family that he has been fired, Kenji first befriends a travelling salesman with a passion for Elvis before taking up gambling, but his wife's outrage soon brings an end to this and sends him on a roller-coaster of misadventures. Via a bizarre chain of happenstance - including being struck by lightning while wielding a golf club - Kenji somehow finds himself responsible for a weirdly believable game show...Fiona Campbell's novel is a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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