The factory

ISBN: 9780811228855 (paperback)
Physical Description: print regular print 116 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : New Direction, 2019.
Copyright: &copy;2019.

Oyamada, Hiroko 1983- (author.). Boyd, David (David G.), (translator.).

Summary: The factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work - days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here? And after a while - it could be weeks or years - the three workers struggle to answer the most basic questions: What am I doing here?