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About the Book

Spending long hours in her claustraphobic office cubicle, a customer service assistant is struggling. Isolated, frustrated and lonely, she finds comfort in only one thing: the office printer. As she confides in the printer about her hopes and dreams, her fears and her past, it becomes clear to her that he is listening. But to her employees, the blossoming relationship is a worrying cry for help. Diagnosed with burnout and placed on leave, she faces severance and – worse – separation from her beloved printer. But she's not about to give up on her only friend without a fight. And, it turns out, neither is he. 'A talented new voice worth paying attention to.' Irish Times 'Equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant.' Jenny Mustard 'Very funny on the tedium of office life.' Irish Independent 'Intimate and surprising at every turn… A truly one-of-a-kind novel: I loved it.' Sarah Maria Griffin This novel has it all. It's smart, captivating, poignant, absurd, moving, and terribly funny.' Jente Posthuma

About the Author :
Fien Veldman (1990) is 2022's recipient of the Joost Zwagerman Essay-award for her essay 'Not really making it', about growing up in a working-class neighbourhood in Leeuwarden. In 2018 she won the Elise Mathilde Essay Award for her essay 'Borders, doors and eyes open'. From 2010 until 2016, she worked as a theatre critic. (And, of course, she has also worked in customer service.) Hard Copy is her debut novel.

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Despite its whimsical premise, Hard Copy is at its heart a joyful, tender, and strangely relatable novel. With sharp, playful prose Veldman tells a story in equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant. This novel has it all. It's smart, captivating, poignant, absurd, moving, and terribly funny. Intimate and surprising at every turn, Hard Copy's distinct narrative voice took me right in from page one. A truly one-of-a-kind novel: I loved it. Rounded with sharp observations and surprising humour, Hard Copy is an incisive commentary on social isolation – a young woman's desperate search for connection in these late-capitalist times. 'Many astute observations about loneliness [and] class attitudes... very funny on the tedium of office life.' Hard Copy is a wonderfully entertaining novel about the struggle to build relationships when one's formative years have already warped their foundation. In a world where machines steadily replace human labour, Veldman explores the search for connections that may not exist and a new, hopefully better reality... bizarre yet poignant' A talented new voice worth paying attention to. Dryly comic... You regularly wonder who is more disturbed here, the protagonist or society. A weird, understated and very well written book about a millennial meltdown A beautiful, at times absurdist and moving debut In clear, bright language, Fien Veldman accurately depicts a world, a social background, that eats its way through the individual... A novel like an autopsy. Absurdist and inventive. Fien Veldman knows how to deal with contemporary cultural phenomena, and she always approaches them astutely and surprisingly' Wondrous A beautiful book


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781035906468
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Apollo
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Story of Girl Meets Printer
  • ISBN-10: 1035906465
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jun 2024
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 256


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