Too late for the festival an American salary-woman in Japan
(2011)
By:
Paine, Rhiannon
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Chicago Review Press : Made available through hoopla, 2011
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780897339957 (electronic bk.) MWT11333647, 0897339959 (electronic bk.) 11333647
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Rhiannon Paine, a technical writer for Hewlett-Packard in Silicon Valley, agreed reluctantly to transfer to their Tokyo branch. She had no idea what she was in for, and neither did her Japanese colleagues. While they coped with her social gaffes, like arriving late to work and blowing her nose in public, Paine struggled with Japanese food, "deviant sea-creatures on rice" and with the Japanese language, which kept tripping her up with new verb tenses
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