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Christian Dorsan, author, blogger and contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommends
On a floor near
Jérôme Baccelli, published on January 6, 2022 by Éditions du Seuil.
His favorite quote:
(…) they realized that they were the only ones in the whole tower.
Except downstairs, perhaps, a dozing security guard.
The only human beings, and perhaps also the only living beings, in this mastodon of cement, metal and plastic which rose in the falling night.
Why this book?
Because this book is a modern fable:
four people who will get to know each other in an unexpected vacuum, detached from their function, each will redefine what he thinks of being in life.
Human stories will be linked, intertwined, each bringing an element of response to the other, each course is transformed into a mirror where each will find a little dignity.
Because this novel is an attack against the ruthless universe
of double-digit profitability, a world in which the human being is only a random factor in the success of a structure in which we no longer really distinguish who is at the commands and the meaning of his tasks.
Because this novel is an initiatory story,
the characters will grow by measuring their degree of enslavement.
A book to reflect on the meaning to be given to work, a meaning that can only be understood when the machine seizes up.
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The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Four people trapped in an elevator in an office tower find themselves in a deserted, abandoned floor.
Three employees fired by the fourth, a financial consultant.
They will then rethink human relations.
Characters.
Josh Koplovski retired, Elisa Vallonne mother of a teenager, Salim Fazell brilliant but shy analyst, Michael Aron Thomas called MAT financial consultant and Pellegrini unscrupulous executive
Places.
An office tower in San Francisco, headquarters of Maxa and a strange, deserted and mysterious floor.
The time.
Current.
The author.
Jérôme Baccelli is a telecommunications consultant who has traveled the world.
He is the author of six novels.
This book has been read
with the realization that the world of work, of large companies subject to profitability, is not a chimera or a fantasy.
Jérôme Baccelli knew how to put names and faces into it in a novel tinged with fantasy that gives food for thought on our way of being faced with the world of work.
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