Death of a Salaryman
ISBN-13:
9780099503699
ISBN-10:
0099503697
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Fiona Campbell
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
Vintage UK
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780099503699
ISBN-10:
0099503697
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Fiona Campbell
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
Vintage UK
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
Summary
Death of a Salaryman (ISBN-13: 9780099503699 and ISBN-10: 0099503697), written by authors
Fiona Campbell, was published by Vintage UK in 2009.
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Wonderfully surreal and painfully real, this is 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. In a shadowy world where curious characters show him the way—a traveling salesman with a passion for Elvis, a pachinko pro with dreams of returning to Hawaii, and a TV producer who will stop at nothing to get his big break—Kenji sets off on a roller-coaster ride of misadventures. Via a bizarre chain of happenstance (including being struck by lightning while wielding a golf club) he finds himself responsible for a bizarre TV reality game show. Against all odds, the salaryman dies—to be reborn as a human being. Fresh, original, and funny, this astonishing debut novel brilliantly captures the fast-changing culture of Japan and its surreal underside in an engaging portrait of an ordinary man battling with the contradictory demands of contemporary life.
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