{"product_id":"the-art-of-asking-your-boss-for-a-raise","title":"The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“One of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else.” \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Italo Calvino\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A satire for the author’s day and oh yes our own on the subtly crushing effects of corporate life … [a] delectable and philosophical office farce.”\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteven Poole, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic, and never less than entertaining—is a penetrating vision of the world of office work. As translator David Bellos writes, it shows us what ‘computers, perhaps even those powered today by AI, simply cannot do: make us laugh and make us cry’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis playful novel originated with a 1968 invitation from IBM, then searching for a writer to explore the use of computers in literature. Georges Perec took up the invite and programmed an early computer to follow the steps an employee of a large corporation would take to submit a successful request for a raise. (Perec himself was such a lowly employee at the time, his prospects of getting a raise as dim as those of the narrator of this tale.) From that algorithmic experiment grew this pioneering and enduring fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Direct Verso Web","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45200085090504,"sku":"BKVD-0826-00128","price":70.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/1072\/4296\/files\/TintabudiShop-4_6c7c7602-312c-4871-b542-29b2c0f29aa4.png?v=1787736416","url":"https:\/\/tintabudi.com\/products\/the-art-of-asking-your-boss-for-a-raise","provider":"Tintabudi Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}