Paperback, 416 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2005 by Vintage.
4 stars
(3 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Thrillers
- Japanese (Language) Contemporary Fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
- Mystery & Detective - General
- Fiction / Thrillers
- Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
- Suspense
- Detective and mystery stories
- Japan
- Social conditions
- Tokyo (Japan)
- Yakuza