The Beautiful Bureaucrat

Resumen del libro

A New York Times Notable Book Best book of the year in the New York Times, Bustle, Time Out, The Atlantic, Slate, Electric Literature 'Funny, sad, scary and beautiful. I love it' Ursula K. Le Guin If the job market hadn't been so bleak during that long, humid summer, Josephine might have been discouraged from taking the administrative position in a windowless building in a remote part of town.

As the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings - the drone of keyboards echoes eerily down the long halls, her boss has terrible breath, and there are cockroaches in the bath of her sublet. When one evening her husband Joseph disappears and then returns, offering no explanation as to his whereabouts, her creeping unease shifts decidedly to dread. Both chilling and poignant, this novel asks the biggest questions about marriage and fidelity, birth and death.

Helen Phillips twists the world we know and shows it back to us full of meaning and wonder - luminous and new.

Biografía del autor

Helen Phillips (Colorado, 1983) vive en Nueva York, donde imparte clases en el Brooklyn College. Además de La hermosa burócrata, que la situó a la vanguardia de la hornada de jóvenes narradores que está revolucionando el panorama literario estadounidense, ha publicado las colecciones de relatos And Yet They Were Happy (2011) y Some Possible Solutions (2016). Su obra, traducida a cinco idiomas y merecedora de numerosas distinciones, ha recibido el reconocimiento unánime de la crítica y de todas las grandes voces de su generación.