Subsidiary

""This is a book written in stamps. And it works: the form perfectly emulates the gloomy atmosphere of the subsidiary and the broken emotional environment of its employees. With few words, The Subsidiary says a great deal."--La Pollera. In the subsidiary offices of a major Latin American corporation, the power suddenly goes out: the lights switch off; the doors lock; the phone lines are cut. The employees are trapped in total darkness with only cryptic, intermittent announcements dispatched over the loud speaker, instructing all personnel to remain at their work stations until further notice. The Subsidiary is one worker's testimony to what happens during the days he spends trapped within the building's walls, told exclusively--and hauntingly--through the stamps he uses to mark corporate documents. Hand-designed by the author with a stamp set he bought in an bookstore in Santiago, Matí as Celedon's The Subsidiary is both an exquisite object and a chilling avant-garde tale from one of Chile's rising literary stars"--