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Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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06 July 2023
215 minutes
9781035012848
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Distinctively Japanese musings on meaning and connection
A beguiling kind of picaresque
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”
An eccentric, charming book, showing how humans can connect in the strangest of circumstances