Böcker av Fumio Yamamoto

The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time - a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women Izumi needs to get a job. Haruka needs to stop talking about how she once had cancer. Kat¿ needs to get through a shift at the convenience store without being harassed. Mito needs to break up with her boyfriend - or marry him. Sumie just needs somewhere to live. In this classic Japanese bestseller, published in English twenty-five years after it took Japan by storm, the lives of five ordinary women are depicted with irresistible humour and searing emotional insight.

A darkly funny and relatable book about five women in modern Japan - that has been a hugely beloved and influential bestseller there, with over 450,000 copies sold, but has never before been published in English