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.
Vorwort
Imagine the literary lovechild of Marina Lewycka and Murakami and you get close to Death of a Salaryman, a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy, set in contemporary Japan.
Autorentext
Vorwort
Imagine the literary lovechild of Marina Lewycka and Murakami and you get close to Death of a Salaryman, a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy, set in contemporary Japan.
Autorentext
Born in 1974, Fiona Campbell studied psychology and zoology at Bristol University and UCL. She then moved to Tokyo to work for Unilever, and while she was there she began writing. On her return to the UK, she completed this novel for the Manchester Metropolitan Writing MA, and she currently works as a policy director for environmental campaigns in Liverpool.
Titel
Death of a Salaryman
Autor
EAN
9781407019437
ISBN
978-1-4070-1943-7
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
15.02.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.47 MB
Anzahl Seiten
368
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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