工場

aka Kōjō

The Factory

Author

Hiroko Oyamada

Language

Japanese

Year

2012

First Pub.

Japan

Genre

Novella / Light Novel

east asiamodern japan

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The Factory is a proletarian novella written by Japanese author Hiroko Oyamada. Originally written and published in Japan in 2013 by Shinchosha Publishing Co., the book was translated into English by David Boyd and published in 2019 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. The uniquely structured novella switches between the perspectives of three characters as they begin jobs at a joint living and working facility known as "the factory."