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桐野夏生

Translated by Stephen Snyder earliest edition we have, 2003 Vintage, 2004 paperback 388 pages

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.

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This book in English

Stephen Snyder 1 printing we hold · 2004 · Vintage

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Out audiobook · 2006 · BBC Audiobooks · 9780792739708
Out audiobook · 2006 · Sound Library · 9780792739227
Out audiobook · 2006 · Sound Library · 9780792739234
Out paperback · 2005 · Vintage International · 400 pages · 9781400078370
Out paperback · 2004 · Vintage · 388 pages · 9780099472285
Out edition · 2003 · Kodansha International · 359 pages · 9784770029058

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