Rental Person Who Does Nothing
A Memoir
$43.34
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2023
Summary
Profiled in The Times, The Independent and by BBC Reels
I’m starting a service … available for any situation in which all you want is a person to be there. Maybe there’s a restaurant you want to go to, but you feel awkward going on your own. Maybe a game you want to play, but you’re one person short. Or perhaps you’d like someone to keep a space in the park for your cherry blossom viewing party …
Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told by his boss that he contributed nothing …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035012800 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035012804 |
| Author: | Shoji Morimoto, Don Knotting |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 144mm x 224mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Distinctively Japanese musings on meaning and connection * Observer *
A beguiling kind of picaresque * The Times *
Lays bare the bathos and banality of contemporary life … Morimoto, though still elusive, emerges as a modern Bartleby, an inadvertent dissident, someone who has come to see his practice as being “about enjoying the absurdity of swimming against the tide of efficiency” * Guardian *
An eccentric, charming book, showing how humans can connect in the strangest of circumstances * Kirkus *
Shoji Morimoto
Shoji Morimoto was born in 1984. He began working as a rental person who does nothing in 2018 and has since been hired by more than 4,000 people. He’s been profiled by many media outlets worldwide and has written several books including Rental Person Who Does Nothing, which inspired a Japanese TV series. Morimoto lives in Japan with his wife and son.
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