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Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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06 July 2023
160 pages
9781035012800
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Distinctively Japanese musings on meaning and connectionObserver
A beguiling kind of picaresqueThe Times
Lays bare the bathos and banality of contemporary life . . . Morimoto, though still elusive, emerges as a modern Bartleby, an inadvertent dissident, someone who has come to see his practice as being “about enjoying the absurdity of swimming against the tide of efficiency”Guardian
An eccentric, charming book, showing how humans can connect in the strangest of circumstancesKirkus