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Death of a Salaryman
Fiona Campbell
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Description for Death of a Salaryman
Paperback. Tells 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. This novel captures the fast-changing culture of Japan and its surreal underside in a portrait of an ordinary man battling with the contradictory demands of contemporary life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 245.
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...
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Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099503699
SKU
KNW0008634
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Fiona Campbell
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Death of a Salaryman
This is an absolutely brilliant first novel
Kate Saunders
The Times
Fiona Campbell's comic caper is an entertaining overview of Japanese society's collision with the worst excesses of western culture
Catherine Taylor
Guardian
Kenji is the kind of luckless dreamer it's hard not to root for
Hepzibah Anderson
Observer
An enjoyably ... Read more
Kate Saunders
The Times
Fiona Campbell's comic caper is an entertaining overview of Japanese society's collision with the worst excesses of western culture
Catherine Taylor
Guardian
Kenji is the kind of luckless dreamer it's hard not to root for
Hepzibah Anderson
Observer
An enjoyably ... Read more