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Estupor y temblores

EDITORIAL ANAGRAMA
AMÉLIE NOTHOMB, SERGI PÀMIES
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Pages
144 pp.
Language
Spanish
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Year
2020
ISBN
9788433960764
Dimensions
13.34 x 0.64 x 20.32 cm
Written by
Amélie Nothomb and Sergi Pàmies

A young Belgian woman begins her working life at a company in Tokyo. An ironic and insightful look at the differences between East and West.

This novel, with a declared autobiographical charge and an impressive success in France since its release, tells the story of a 22-year-old Belgian woman, Amélie, who starts working in Tokyo at one of the world's largest companies, Yumimoto, the quintessence of Japanese corporations. With astonishment and trembling: this is how the Emperor of the Rising Sun demanded his subjects to present themselves before him. In present-day Japan, strongly hierarchical (where every superior is, first and foremost, the subordinate of another), Amélie, burdened by the double handicap of being both a woman and a Westerner, lost in an anthill of bureaucrats and also captivated by the very Japanese beauty of her direct superior, with whom she has frankly perverse relations, suffers a cascade of humiliations. Absurd tasks, insane orders, repetitive duties, grotesque humiliations, thankless, inept, or delirious missions, sadistic bosses: young Amélie starts in accounting, then moves on to serving coffee, to the photocopier, and, descending the steps of dignity (though with a very Zen detachment), ends up taking care of the men's restrooms...

Title
Estupor y temblores
Author
Amélie Nothomb, Sergi Pàmies
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Year
2020
Language
Español
Pages
144 pp.
ISBN
9788433960764
Categories
Ficción social , Libros de sociología sobre el maltrato , Antologías de literatura y ficción
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