Hiroko Oyamada est une auteure japonaise contemporaine reconnue pour ses mondes fictifs uniques et troublants. Ses récits explorent souvent les absurdités de la vie quotidienne, transformant le banal en quelque chose d'étrange et de stimulant. À travers un style littéraire distinctif, elle aborde des thèmes tels que l'aliénation, l'identité et les angoisses subtiles qui imprègnent l'existence moderne.
Deux hommes et une femme trouvent un emploi à l'Usine, un gigantesque complexe industriel. Le premier étudie les mousses pour végétaliser les toits, le deuxième relit et corrige des textes divers et la troisième est préposée à la déchiqueteuse. La monotonie de leur emploi les frappe mais ils n'ont pas d'autres options pour gagner leur vie et ils sont prêts à accepter beaucoup de choses.
A UK debut from a fresh, prize-winning talent, this quietly surreal novel is perfect for fans of Sayaka Murata and Mieko Kawakami Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In a remote new home in the mountains, they look for a solution to a weasel infestation. During a dinner party in a blizzard, a mounting claustr[Bokinfo].
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips to the supermarket, halfheartedly looks for work, and tries to find interesting ways of killing time. One day, while running an errand for her mother-in-law, she comes across a strange creature, follows it to the embankment of a river, and ends up falling into a hole—a hole that seems to have been made specifically for her. This is the first in a series of bizarre experiences that drive Asa deeper into the mysteries of this rural landscape filled with eccentric characters and unidentifiable creatures, leading her to question her role in this world, and eventually, her sanity.