Hiroko Oyamada

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  L'usine

  Hiroko Oyamada

  • Christian Bourgois
  • Satellites
  • 12 Septembre 2024
  • 9782267048155

  L'Usine, un gigantesque complexe industriel de la taille d'une ville, s'étend à perte de vue. C'estlà qu'une femme et deux hommes, sans liens apparents, vont désormais travailler à des postes pour le moins curieux. L'un est chargé d'étudier des mousses pour végétaliser les toits. L'autre corrige des écrits de toutes sortes dont l'usage reste mystérieux. La dernière est préposée à la déchiqueteuse de documents. Très vite, la monotonie et l'absence de sens les saisissent, mais lorsqu'il faut gagner sa vie, on est prêt à accepter beaucoup de choses... Même si cela implique de voir ce lieu de travail pénétrer chaque strate de son existence ?
  
  Dans une ambiance kafkaïenne où la réalité perd peu à peu de ses contours, et alors que d'étranges animaux commencent à rôder dans les rues, les trois narrateurs se confrontent à l'emprise grandissante de l'Usine. Hiroko Oyamada livre un roman sur l'aliénation au travail où les apparences sont souvent trompeuses. Lire la suite Fermer

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  Le trou

  Hiroko Oyamada

  • Christian Bourgois
  • Satellites
  • 2 Octobre 2025
  • 9782267055917

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  The hole

  Hiroko Oyamada

  • Faber
  • 241 Poche
  • 15 Mars 2024
  • 9781803510606

  Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettling
  
  Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips to the supermarket, halfheartedly looks for work, and tries to find interesting ways of killing time.
  
  One day, while running an errand for her mother-in-law, she comes across a strange creature, follows it to the embankment of a river, and ends up falling into a hole-a hole that seems to have been made specifically for her. This is the first in a series of bizarre experiences that drive Asa deeper into the mysteries of this rural landscape filled with eccentric characters and unidentifiable creatures, leading her to question her role in this world, and eventually, her sanity. Lire la suite Fermer

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  Weasels in the attic

  Hiroko Oyamada

  • Faber
  • 1 Août 2023
  • 9781783789764

  A UK debut from a fresh, prize-winning talent, this quietly surreal novel is perfect for fans of Sayaka Murata and Mieko Kawakami
  
  Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In a remote new home in the mountains, they look for a solution to a weasel infestation. During a dinner party in a blizzard, a mounting claustrophobia makes way for uneasy dreams. Their conversations often take them in surprising directions, but when one of the men becomes a father, more and more is left unsaid.
  
  With emotional acuity and a wry humour, Weasels in the Attic it is an uncanny and striking reflection on fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan. Lire la suite Fermer

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