ARGONAUT BOOKS

The true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan. Reviews Distinctively Japanese musings on meaning and connectionObserverA beguiling kind of picaresqueThe TimesLays 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"GuardianAn eccentric, charming book, showing how humans can connect in the s...Read More