{"product_id":"estupor-y-temblores-747-compactos","title":"Estupor y temblores","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young Belgian woman begins her working life at a company in Tokyo. An ironic and insightful look at the differences between East and West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editorial Anagrama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57025187283288,"sku":"LIB-ES-ED-730","price":11.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788433960764.jpg?v=1775169626","url":"https:\/\/eu.plasticbooks.com\/en\/products\/estupor-y-temblores-747-compactos","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}