Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
The true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan.
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 *
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 was born in 1983. He began working as a rental person who does nothing in 2018 and has since been hired more than 4,000 times. 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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781035012800 |
| ISBN 10 | 1035012804 |
| Title | Rental Person Who Does Nothing |
| Author | Shoji Morimoto |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2023-07-06 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |