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The Employees
A workplace novel of the 22nd century
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This novel will appeal to readers interested in speculative fiction that critically examines human nature, workplace dynamics, and futuristic societies. Those who appreciate thought-provoking, literary science fiction with a sharp, satirical edge will find The Employees compelling.
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare
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Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.
Olga Ravn’s prose is chilling, crackling, exhilarating, and foreboding. The Employees probes into what makes us human, while delivering a hilariously stinging critique of life governed by the logic of productivity.
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ISBN: 9780811234825
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 February 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Contributors:
- Translated by Martin Aitken
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 114.0mm
Height: 185.0mm
Weight: 120g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Olga Ravn (born 1986) is a Danish novelist and poet. In collaboration with Danish publisher Gyldendal she edited a selection of Tove Ditlevsen’s texts and books that relaunched Ditlevsen’s readership worldwide. Her novel The Employees was on the shortlist for the Booker Prize in 2021, and The Wax Child was on the longlist for the Booker International Prize and the shortlist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Translation in 2026. Martin Aitken has translated numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Peter Høeg, Ida Jessen, and Kim Leine. He won the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of Hanne Ørstavik’s Love.
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