A review by ihavequalities
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada

mysterious fast-paced

4.5

I do not remember where or why I picked this up but it made for a quick compelling read between. Oyamada’s characters all work at a factory that has no name, but consumes the economic life of the city it sits within. A city in itself. They drift through their work days of meaningless tasks and feelings of frustrations at their situations. Despite having what's expected of them they feel adrift. There’s an eerie quality to the writing, a feeling that something is not quite right in this factory and those who work within it's unfathomable hierarchy. The wildlife has adapted to the factory in unusual ways. The prose is loose, the distinction between interior and exterior blurs, not dreamlike, but rather like the characters are slowly slipping away.