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This book gave me a few ideas I think I'll try to put into practice. Particularly, having an active and holding tank list where I only work on maximum 3 things at once. I'm also going to try and schedule time for more deep focus at work, as that's something I've been struggling with, the myriad tasks keeping my thoughts shallow.

@gwcoffey , I just finished and I do love it! It's such a different type of story than those that we are used to.

This was a great short novel. It's very mundane and down to earth, somewhat jarring and refreshing after reading a lot of high fantasy and such. It reminds me of the lyrics to a Shad K song: genius.com/Shad-a-story-no-one-told-lyrics . It's the tale of an ordinary man growing old, and for some reason it enthralls the reader.

I thought it was lesser known, but reading about it after finishing it, it looks like it had a resurgence of popularity in the 2010s and is now quite well known. It's interesting to me to see pieces like this gain popularity after the author is no longer around.

I read about this one on Reddit I believe as a classic that isn't well known.

My wife recommended this to me, so I'm going to give it a try. She gave it a strong recommendation.

I went into this thinking with it being set in Iran and not Hong Kong or Japan that I wouldn't like it as much, but I came to appreciate the unique culture and turbulent times the book covered.

Late stage capitalism taken to it's logical conclusion!