Product Description
Discontent
Author: Beatriz Serrano
Format: Paperback
Life can't go on like this - can it?
This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection.
A sexy and hilarious Spanish bestseller, where a young woman's office persona threatens to crack when she's forced to attend her company's annual retreat.
'Tremendously entertaining' — Guardian
'Hilarious' — Daily Mail
'A wild ride' — Express
'An impressive new comic talent' — Daily Telegraph
'Wry and incisive... very funny' — New York Times
On the surface, Marisa's life looks enviable. She lives in a nice apartment in the heart of Madrid, her friendly neighbour and lover Pablo lives downstairs, and she's risen quickly through the ranks at a successful advertising agency.
And yet Marisa hates her job and everything about it. Over one hot summer she finds herself in danger of being exposed when she's forced to deliver a talk on creativity at a horrendous team-building retreat. Surrounded by psychopathic bosses, flirty facilitators, and an excess of drugs, Marisa is pushed to the brink of a complete spiral.
Discontent is a bold, biting novel about acting on our wilder impulses to reclaim our lives from work.
'Serrano writes with a caustic flair for detail, with charm and utter hilarity. Absolutely brilliant' — Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution
'I adored our heroine... A razor-sharp debut' — Anna Dorn, author of Perfume and Pain
'A love song to the listless and lonely of the LinkedIn age' — Ariel Courage, author of Bad Nature
About the Author
Beatriz Serrano is a writer and a journalist who has written for publications such as BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, S Moda, and Vogue. She works for El País and, along with writer Guillermo Alonso, co-directs the prizewinning podcast Arsénico Caviar. Discontent is her first novel. She currently lives in Madrid.
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