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Olga Ravn

The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century

Shortlisted for the International Booker prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare.
Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the 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.
85 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Translator
Martin Aitken
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  • Juan Carlos Francohas quotedlast month
    What you call made is your own work. What you call found, discovered, is your own point of origin.
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    I want to take the opportunity to tell you I’m living. No matter what you say, I’m never going to believe otherwise.
  • Juan Carlos Francohas quotedlast month
    Tell me, do we each have our own programme or is it the same programme in all of us? Am I the programme made manifest to itself? Am I the programme’s dream of the sun? Am I just pain and nothing else?

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