About this book

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

  • crime, fiction
  • detective and mystery stories
  • fiction
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • fiction, suspense
  • fiction, thrillers, general
  • japanese fiction
  • japan, fiction
  • pl855.i566 o8713 2005
  • social conditions
  • tokyo (japan), fiction
  • translations into english
  • yakuza
  • yakuza--japan--fiction