The Factory (novel)

The Factory
First edition (Shinchōsha, 2013)
AuthorHiroko Oyamada
TranslatorDavid Boyd
LanguageJapanese
GenreJapanese proletarian
PublisherJapan: Shinchosha Publishing Co. (Japanese edition)
New York City: New Directions Publishing Corporation (English edition)
Publication date
2013
Publication placeJapan
Published in English
2019
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages116 p. (English edition)

The Factory (Japanese: 工場, Hepburn: Kōjō) 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.[1] 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."

  1. ^ Oyamada, Hiroko (2019). The factory. Hiroko Translation of : Oyamada, David Boyd. New York. ISBN 978-0-8112-2885-5. OCLC 1100424643.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)