India, April 14 -- If you've ever given The Office a shot, or better, find yourself utterly obsessed by the exaggerated shenanigans of workplace mundanity it scripts and captures, you'll be flying through the crisp pages of Won-pyung Sohn's Counterattacks at Thirty.

Unlike her debut novel Almond, which's selling point was it's starkly unique premise and slightly more relatable 'resolution' if you can call it that, Sohn uses Counterattacks at Thirty to explore sentiments every last person part of the global workforce has internalised over their years of mind-numbing routine.

The directionless-ness and the endless nerves will either seem sorely familiar, or make you abjectly uncomfortable, by way of past resonance - but it'll never feel f...