I present to you Alain Delambre, former director of Human Resources and now unemployed. The paradox of the current labor system represented in this character. In this book Inhuman Resources, we dress in Alain's skin at the age of fifty-seven and participate in his discovery of the other side of the job placement process, that of someone looking for a job.
Your age is not the best for finding a new job. His resume does not seem to matter, too bulky and with too many trade-offs associated with his professionalism. Not good for the cheap, young-staffing machine.
The job search becomes a dead end for Alain. At the beginning of the story drops of black humor are sprinkled between an easily recognizable situation in our reality. But little by little the plot is drifting towards an anguished scenario, where Alain will succumb to despair.
Out of work, without dignity and completely desperate, Alain seizes on any opportunity to try to find himself back in active society. But opportunities come with risks. His family relationships suffer and his general condition abruptly worsens.
And there comes a time when as a reader, you are surprised to find yourself reading a crime novel with dramatic real overtones. What Alain can do to regain his dignity surpasses anything he imagined. What you can feel in the midst of despair is something that drenches and splashes you, even with the very drops of blood of a nascent violence.
Finding work as a true thriller, a suspense story, a push to an extreme that sometimes does not seem so far away in our daily lives. Interesting novel that is read with concern, but once you have looked at it you will not be able to stop reading.
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