• The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto
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The Dilemmas of Working Women

The Japanese Bestseller
  • Author
    • Fumio Yamamoto
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Jul 03, 2025

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The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time - a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women

Izumi needs to get a job.
Haruka needs to stop talking about how she once had cancer.
Kat? needs to get through a shift at the convenience store without being harassed.
Mito needs to break up with her boyfriend - or marry him.
Sumie just needs somewhere to live.

In this classic Japanese bestseller, published in English twenty-five years after it took Japan by storm, the lives of five ordinary women are depicted with irresistible humour and searing emotional insight.

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  • Published: Jul 03 2025
  • Pages: 288
  • ISBN: 9780349019215
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Press Reviews

  • Yoon Choi, author of Skinship

    The Dilemmas of Working Women is a delight. With acute insight and sly humour, Fumio Yamamoto depicts the lives of modern Japanese women in all their complexity. The characters, in their quirky idiosyncrasies, are deeply familiar; their stoicisms heartbreaking

  • Roxy Dunn, author of As Young as This

    What an engaging, witty, and unique book. So brilliantly written that I kept trying to memorise sentences in order to repeat them to people later. What a win for the English language that we're finally getting to experience Yamamoto's inimitable voice

  • Lisa Owens, author of Not Working

    An offbeat, bold and subversive portrait of contemporary womanhood, full of brilliantly unconventional characters. The Dilemmas of Working Women crackles and pops with humour, empathy and intelligence