Single Women (translated Documentary)
About This Novel
"Is it our fault for not getting married?!" All the efforts are just to live an "ordinary" life. This is a group portrait of women from the working generation of Japan during the Ice Age, a true testimony of floating in the tide of the times. The object of this book's investigation is the female group in Japan's working generation during the Ice Age. Based on the four themes of "informal employees", "middle-aged women's blind dates", "hardship of life" and "caring for elderly parents", the author interviewed many women of the same age group and in similar situations: Some people know that the company's "efforts will make you transfer". "True" is a lie, and people who can only rely on self-numbing to persist in working; some people cannot enjoy the company's benefits when they are sick, and can only stand by and lose their jobs; some people find a boyfriend, but give up because they cannot accept the reality that they have to die for him first; some people pursue They seek close relationships but finally give up after many setbacks and decide to spend their lives with cats; some leave their original families and live a lonely but happy life on subsistence allowances; others reject the threat of consumerism and find a sense of belonging by participating in trade union activities to help others defend their rights... They sink or float in the mud and sand of the times, enduring and resisting all kinds of tangible and invisible discrimination against women in Japanese society, and leaving a precious testimony to record the current status of women's survival in contemporary East Asian society.
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