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ポトスライムの舟
Potosuraimu no fune
“The Pothos Lime Boat” (title translated by AI)
Kikuko Tsumura (津村記久子, born 1978)
English editions
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Nagase is twenty-nine and on a temporary contract at a factory. On top of that she helps at a café her friend Yoshika runs, does data entry at home and teaches computer classes. She left the company that hired her out of university after severe harassment from a boss. Then she sees an advert for a non-profit's cruise around the globe and works out that the fare, 1.63 million yen, roughly equals her yearly factory wages. Time sold for money, she thinks, could just as well be exchanged for a trip around the globe, and she begins to economise.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 186 pages in the original
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2008 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 30 when first published
- ISBN
9784062152877 (original)
- More
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