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Discontent : a novel / Beatriz Serrano ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Loaned to Another Library PQ6719.E845395 D4713 2025
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- Author/Creator:
- Serrano, Beatriz, 1989- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Descontento. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Spain--Fiction.
- Women.
- Anxiety in women--Fiction.
- Anxiety in women.
- Work environment--Fiction.
- Work environment.
- Segovia (Spain : Province)--Fiction.
- Segovia (Spain : Province).
- Madrid (Spain)--Fiction.
- Madrid (Spain).
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 180 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from Spanish.
- Summary:
- "On the surface, Marisa's life looks enviable. She lives in a beautiful apartment in the center of Madrid, she has a hot neighbor who is always around to sleep with her, and she's quickly risen through the ranks at a successful advertising agency. And yet she's drowning in a dark hole of existential dread induced by the banality of corporate life. Marisa hates her job and everyone at it. She spends her working hours locked in her office hiding from her coworkers, bingeing YouTube videos, and getting high on tranquilizers. When she has the time, she escapes to her favorite museum where she contemplates the meaning of life while staring at Hieronymus Bosch paintings, or trying to get hit by a car so she can go on disability. But Marisa's dubious success, which is largely built on lies and work she's stolen from other people, is in danger of being exposed when she's forced to go on her company's team-building retreat. Isolated in the Segovia forests, haunted by the deeply buried memory of a former coworker, and surrounded by psychopathic bosses, overzealous coworkers, flirty retreat staff, and an excess of drugs, Marisa finds herself acting on her wildest impulses and is pushed to the brink of a complete spiral."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Originally published in Spain by Editorial Planeta S.A.U., Barcelona, in 2023.
- A Vintage Books Original
- ISBN:
- 9798217006762
- OCLC:
- 1467887214
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