Category:
Adults,
General Fiction,
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bureaucrat Invisible Room Kafkaesque SatireWritten by Jonas Karlsson
Read by George Newbern
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: Random House (Audio)
Date: February 2015
Duration: 3 hours 28 minutes
Summary:
Funny, clever, surreal, and thought-provoking, this Kafkaesque masterpiece introduces the unforgettable Bjorn, an exceptionally meticulous office worker striving to live life on his own terms.
Bjorn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works–a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn is in his room, what his co-workers see is him standing by the wall and staring off into space looking dazed, relaxed, and decidedly creepy. Bjorn’s bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try and have him fired, but Bjorn will turn the tables on them with help from his secret room.
Debut author Jonas Karlsson doesn’t leave a word out of place in this brilliant, bizarre, delightful take on how far we will go–in a world ruled by conformity–to live an individual and examined life.