Synopsis
Need a rental person who does nothing?
Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him that he contributed nothing and that it made no difference whether he showed up to work or not, he wondered if a person who ‘does nothing’ could still have a place in the world. With a...
Details
06 July 2023215 minutes
Kevin Shen
9781035012848Imprint: 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
