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An works at a parcel depot wrapped in a thin haze, sorting the endless stream of packages that comes down the conveyor among staff who go about their jobs without a word. He barely talks to anyone from morning to night and gets through the tedium by guessing what each box holds. Bit by bit he is consumed by the need to see whether his guesses are right. Then, for a reason he never saw coming, he gets a look inside a box that is never to be opened, and from that point boxes he is sure were there start to disappear, one after another. The story asks how a person can hold on to a self in work that has no use for one.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

110 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2025 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha

Author's age

26 when first published

ISBN

9784309032467 (original)