May You Have Delicious Meals

This witty novel captures the absurdities of modern office life>

About the author

Junko Takase is the critically acclaimed author of six novels. Her debut novel Things With The Shape of a Dog won the Subaru Literature Prize and Taking a Breath in Standing Water was nominated for The Akutagawa Prize. Her latest novel May You Have Delicious Meals won that prize and sold over 180,000 copies. She lives in Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Junko Takase
• Assisted by: Morgan Giles (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 05.02.2026
• EAN: 9781804947357
• ISBN: 978-1-80494-735-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, Saitama, Fiction in translation, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary