The Great Passage - 2013 - 7/10
AKA - Fune wo amu // 舟を編む
Within the publishing firm, the sales division is only too happy to transfer their worst salesman to the dictionary division - considered career death.
Once there, the nebbish bookworm excels and gradually rises through the small ranks.
The updated edition, titled “The Great Passage,” takes 15 years of checking, cross-checking, verifying, re-verifying definitions and meanings before it finally reaches publication.
As the world shifts from print to digital.
Not altogether dull, the story moves at its own leisurely pace.
By any standard, geeky and better suited to obsessive bibliophiles.