
- Publisher
- Kōdansha
- First published
- 2008
- Length
- ≈ 186 pages
- Reading time
- 5–7 hours
- ISBN
- 9784062152877
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
Nagase is twenty-nine and works on a contract at a factory, while also helping in a friend’s café, doing data entry at home and teaching computer classes. She left her first job after severe bullying by a boss. One day she sees a poster for a round-the-world cruise and realises that the fare, 1.
63 million yen, is almost exactly what she earns in a year at the factory. She starts saving hard to pay for it.
Source: ポトスライムの舟 (Japanese Wikipedia)
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