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May You Have Delicious Meals

by Junko Takase
May You Have Delicious Meals
May You Have Delicious Meals

Office politics, served with sugary treats

In a Saitama office, food exposes uneasy power dynamics. Nitani, Ashikawa, and Oshio navigate rigid workplace expectations, balancing ambition, indulgence, restraint, and lonely instant noodles.

  • Akutagawa Prize 芥川龍之介賞 (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

May You Have Delicious Meals

by Junko Takase
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ISBN: 9781804947357
Author: Junko Takase
Publisher: Penguin
Date of Publication: 2026-02-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Japanese Literature, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.03
(rated by 2283 readers)

Description

The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else's late-night binge . . .In their Saitama office, Ashikawa is the kind of woman Nitani knows he will likely marry: sweet, obliging, and determined to wean him off his addiction to instant noodles. But he finds himself increasingly unable to respect her – or the sugary treats she shares around the workplace, winning their colleagues’ affection with baking rather than hard work.Oshio is bolder and uninhibited – she is Nitani's drinking buddy. In the oppressive office atmosphere, the pair grows closer, both outsiders struggling with the rigid status quo.Driven to behave in increasingly absurd ways by the workplace rules that govern their lives, they must navigate the tensions of modern life: between leisure and hard work; indulgence and restraint; the promise of delicious food, and the reality of a lonely pot noodle.
 

Office politics, served with sugary treats

In a Saitama office, food exposes uneasy power dynamics. Nitani, Ashikawa, and Oshio navigate rigid workplace expectations, balancing ambition, indulgence, restraint, and lonely instant noodles.

  • Akutagawa Prize 芥川龍之介賞 (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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