Waiting for You at Sea
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"Waiting for You at the Sea" contains two novels by Japan's Akiko Itoyama: the novella "Waiting for You at the Sea" and the short story "Thanksgiving Day for Hard Work". This kind of experience of the author has never been experienced by Japanese female writers before. Although there are some women who have stayed in the company all their lives, the authors mostly play the role of secretaries who stay in the office all day to help their male bosses, and they are very feminine. Those early career women who were unmarried after a certain age were automatically labeled as "spinsters." Other people working in society, except for a few professionals such as doctors, pharmacists, and teachers, are only bar girls, dancers and other popular industries. Itoyama truly belongs to the first generation of Japanese women who are not called "Miss" in the workplace. Although the work "Waiting for You at Sea" uses the first-person voice that is easy to ramble on, there is no wasted writing, it is seamless and it appears to be full of vitality. Being able to describe modern professions so freely is full of fresh impact.
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