The Factory
  • Published:
    Nov-2019
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    128
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The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada -- one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan

The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work -- days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here? And after a while -- it could be weeks or years -- the three workers struggle to answer the most basic question: What am I doing here?

With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, The Factory casts a vivid -- and sometimes surreal -- portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.
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    • First Edition
    • Nov-2019
    • New Directions Publishing Corporation
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0811228851
    • ISBN13: 9780811228855
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    • Nov-2023
    • Granta Publications Ltd
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1803510536
    • ISBN13: 9781803510538
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    • Oct-2019
    • New Directions Publishing Corporation
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 081122886X
    • ISBN13: 9780811228862
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    • Oct-2019
    • New Directions
    • eBook (Kindle)



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