Do you miss the daily grind and office life? This book will cheer you up

Kikuko Tsumura returns with a strange, compelling, darkly funny tale of one woman's search for meaning in the modern workplace. Photo: Handout

It would appear context is not necessary to Japanese author Kikuko Tsumura.

Her latest book There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job opens with the reader being plunged straight into the psyche of the protagonist, who has recently been hired into a surveillance job to observe a writer in his home.