Room Attendant
by Feng Lili
About This Novel
This book is the second literary work of writer Feng Lili, which stems from her experience of working as a waiter undercover in a hotel for several months. "I" tells the daily life of a group of young waitresses from the dual perspective of an observer and a witness: they work day after day in exchange for meager wages and a rough life, and are accustomed to an arbitrary increase in workload and simple and even poor living conditions; they bully, quarrel, scheme, and help each other, go shopping and have fun together; they suffer harsh and unreasonable exploitation, and also look for opportunities to be lazy and slack at work. The "airborne" supervisor broke the tranquility of the housekeeping department, and a power struggle quietly began... Finally, when the peak season came, "I", exhausted physically and mentally, left the hotel. In the author's plain, restrained and line-drawing narrative, a guest room is a microcosm of the world. In the past, the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of the room attendants who were at the bottom were almost never noticed or expressed, and even they themselves turned a blind eye. This group of waitresses with different faces, dressed in khaki work clothes, seem to have never met other passers-by in this city, but in fact they are no different: it is almost impossible to escape the helplessness of life, and hard work and hard work cannot change the solidified destiny.
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