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Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9781035012817
- Titel
- Rental Person Who Does Nothing
- Författare
- Morimoto, Shoji
- Förlag
- Pan Books Ltd
- Utgivningsår
- 2023
- Omfång
- 148 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Häftad
- Mått
- 135 x 216 mm Ryggbredd 14 mm
- Vikt
- 170 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Today, I'm starting a 'rent a person who does nothing' service . . . Except for very simple conversation, I'm afraid I can do nothing.
Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a 'do-nothing' because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out . . . to do nothing.
Morimoto, aka Rental Person, provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. Sitting with a client undergoing surgery, accompanying a newly-divorced client to her favourite restaurant, visiting the site of a client's suicide attempt are just a few of his thousands of true life adventures. He is dependable, non-judgmental and committed to remaining a stranger and the curious encounters he shares are revelatory about both Japanese society and human psychology.
In Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Morimoto chronicles his extraordinary experiences in his unique line of work and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.
Pan Books Ltd 9781035012817 -
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9781035012824
- Titel
- Rental Person Who Does Nothing
- Författare
- Morimoto, Shoji
- Förlag
- Pan Books Ltd
- Utgivningsår
- 2024
- Omfång
- 160 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 197 mm Ryggbredd 10 mm
- Vikt
- 115 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Need a rental person who does nothing?
Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him that he contributed nothing and that it made no difference whether he showed up to work or not, he wondered if a person who 'does nothing' could still have a place in the world. With a tweet, his Rental Person service was born.
- Have a deep secret you desperately need to reveal, so deep that you can't tell a friend or family member?
- Have you spent a long time home alone, and want to know what it's like to have somebody with you at your apartment?
- Or for someone to simply think of you on a stressful day? Or wave to you as you leave the train station on a long journey?
Morimoto is dependable, non-judgmental and committed to remaining a stranger throughout each request, and his encounters are revelatory about both Japanese society and human psychology.
In Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Morimoto chronicles his extraordinary experiences in his unique line of work and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.
9781035012824 -
Rental Person Who Does Nothing
Häftad bok. Pan Books Ltd. 2023. 148 sidor.
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Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9781035012817
- Titel
- Rental Person Who Does Nothing
- Författare
- Morimoto, Shoji
- Förlag
- Pan Books Ltd
- Utgivningsår
- 2023
- Omfång
- 148 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Häftad
- Mått
- 135 x 216 mm Ryggbredd 14 mm
- Vikt
- 170 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Today, I'm starting a 'rent a person who does nothing' service . . . Except for very simple conversation, I'm afraid I can do nothing.
Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a 'do-nothing' because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out . . . to do nothing.
Morimoto, aka Rental Person, provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. Sitting with a client undergoing surgery, accompanying a newly-divorced client to her favourite restaurant, visiting the site of a client's suicide attempt are just a few of his thousands of true life adventures. He is dependable, non-judgmental and committed to remaining a stranger and the curious encounters he shares are revelatory about both Japanese society and human psychology.
In Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Morimoto chronicles his extraordinary experiences in his unique line of work and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.
Pan Books Ltd 9781035012817
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