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The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken (Translator)Publish date:2/7/2023Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811234825ISBN-10:811234827UPC:9780811234825Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, Science FictionBook Topic:Denmark, Genetic EngineeringAward:2022 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation AwardSize:6.90 x 4.60 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCKRNFMR1C
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811234825ISBN-10:811234827UPC:9780811234825Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, Science FictionBook Topic:Denmark, Genetic EngineeringAward:2022 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation AwardSize:6.90 x 4.60 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCKRNFMR1C
Aitken, Martin: - 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.Ravn, Olga: -

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.

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Awards

🏆 2022 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation Award

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