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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Death is a bureaucracy. She intends to fix it. Mira Osei died at seventeen, reaching for a library book. She wakes in the Bureau of Final Transitions - the vast, beige, gloriously incompetent bureaucracy that administers death, where souls are sorted by four hundred years of accumulated forms and misfiled by the millions. But Mira can see what the system cannot: which souls are in the wrong place, and exactly where they belong. She is an Instrument of Correction. There have been others. Every one of them was stopped - isolated, promoted into irrelevance, quietly erased. Every one of them was alone. Mira is not alone. With Henrietta Bloch - dead since 1887, passed over eleven times, keeper of forty-three buried proposals - she sets out to do the impossible: reform an institution from the inside, one corrected soul at a time. Against deputy directors who file forms to make her stop, a director-general who has spent forty years not knowing, and four centuries of "this is how it's done," Mira and a small band of the overlooked discover that the thing an institution fears most isn't a rebel. It's people who refuse to be alone. The Pending Tray is a darkly funny, fiercely humane novel about competence and patience, about the difference between burning a thing down and building it better - and about what it takes to be seen by a system that was never built for you. For readers of Terry Pratchett, Naomi Alderman, and The Good Place. "The institution does not persist on its own. It has to be maintained. People have to choose, every day, not to see what it is doing. That is a choice. And choices can change." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.