by Jean-Claude Lalumière · Libros del Asteroide S.L.U. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492663385
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«El frente ruso» is the satirical novel by Jean-Claude Lalumière, published by Libros del Asteroide in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
A young official at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs sees his career conditioned by the briefcase his mother gives him for his first job. After a stumble by his head of personnel, he is assigned to the department of «Países en vías de creación. Sección Europa del Este y Siberia», known as the Russian front. From that peculiar office he will try to rise in the ministry, surrounded by a recognizable office fauna: a hippy secretary about to retire, a phantasmal IT guy, an inept boss, or a climbing colleague.
Novel number 79 of the Libros del Asteroide collection. Translation by Paula Cifuentes. Originally published in France in 2010 as «Le Front russe».
For readers of contemporary fiction and absurd humor who have worked in an office and want a satire with a bitter undertone.
