LA FILIAL

"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 loudspeaker, 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, Matías Celedon's The Subsidiary is both an exquisite object and a chilling avant-garde tale from one of Chile's rising literary stars"-