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Ioannis Pappos

    Ioannis Pappos is a management consultant and author who draws on his diverse professional experiences to craft compelling narratives. His work often explores the intersection of business, culture, and the human condition, viewed through a lens sharpened by his international career. Pappos's debut novel marks his entry into the literary world, promising insights gleaned from a life lived across different continents and industries. His writing style is characterized by clarity and a keen observation of societal dynamics.

    Hotel Living
    • 2015

      Hotel Living

      • 355 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      3,3(219)Ohodnotit

      "I'm homeless, but in first class."Stathis Rakis has abandoned his small Greek village for a more worldly life, first in San Francisco, where the dot-com bubble had already burst, and then in Paris, France, at a top business school. After falling in love with a liberal New England journalist with a good conscience (but with some scores to settle), Stathis moves to the United States to work as a management consultant for a high-octane company called Command. He spends the very few hours of the day that aren't consumed by work draining the minibar of whichever five-star hotel he's currently calling home, battling insomnia, and bingeing on more than room service. Luxury is a given; happiness is not.As the economy recovers and a new bubble expands in a post-9/11 world, Stathis drifts upward, bearing witness to the criminal decadence that will become the 2008 financial crisis while developing his own habits of indulgence—drugs, sex, and insider trading. In a world of insatiability that features both corporate suits and Hollywood hedonism, Stathis remains the outsider: too foreign to be one of them, too cynical to turn back.

      Hotel Living