Mitrache Corneliu, “Laughter and Gloom in the Trading Room”, Contemporary Fiction, (Indie: 2022)
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Radu Morare, an author and American expat of Romanian origins whose business failed during the financial crisis, winds up working as a security guard on the French stock market room: a blue-collar worker surrounded by investment bankers in a reality entirely detached from our own. From a spiritual awakening in a stuck elevator to faeces deposited on a superior’s desk, Radu witnesses the bizarre behaviour of those who believe themselves masters of the French economy, and his enquiring mind drives him to demand: why?
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