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The Factory -- Hiroko Oyamada, Paperback Home Improvement / Construction just when the boy isThe English language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the