Fumio Yamamoto

The Dilemmas of Working Women (eBook, ePUB)

Stories
Übersetzer: Bergstrom, Brian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A spiky, edgy collection of five wickedly funny stories spotlighting clear-eyed and difficult women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japana feminist, anti-capitalist modern classic published outside Asia and in English for the first time.

The Dilemmas of Working Women is Fumio Yamamoto's darkly witty look at modern Japanese women who are ambivalent about their lives and jobs. In Naked, a woman who's simultaneously lost her business and her husband finds that it is surprisingly comfortable to stay at home sewing stuffed animals, even if it makes her a loser in the eyes of society. In Planarian, a young woman recovering from breast cancer tells her friends and boyfriend that she would prefer to be the titular worm to organically regenerate her body. Each of these spiky womenas well as the three other protagonists in this groundbreaking workchafes against social expectations that equate work with worth and demand women squeeze into the confining and sometimes dehumanizing role of employee in a world built by and for men.

First published in Japan in 2000, The Dilemmas of Working Women struck a nerve with Japanese readers and became a bestselling literary sensation, selling nearly half a million copies and winning the prestigious Naoki Prize in Literature. A quarter of a century later, this brilliant modern classicavailable for the first time outside Asia and in Englishremains deliciously funny and astonishingly relevant.

Translated from the Japanese by Brian Bergstrom

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063423602
• Artikelnr.: 72301860

Autorenporträt

Fumio Yamamoto (19622021) was a Japanese writer of novels and essays. Her books include Loveaholic, which won the 1999 Yoshikawa Eiji New Writer's Prize, and the collection The Dilemmas of Working Women, which won the prestigious Naoki Prize in Literature and became a bestselling phenomenon.