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The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
Olga Ravn
(Author)
Martin Aitken
(Translator)
Description
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. It was shortlisted for the the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.
Product Details
Price
$19.95
$18.55
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
February 01, 2022
Pages
144
Dimensions
4.94 X 7.62 X 0.68 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780811231350
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About the Author
Olga Ravn (born 1986) is a Danish novelist and poet. Her debut poetry collection, I Devour Myself Like Heather, appeared to critical acclaim in 2012. Alongside Johanne Lykke Holm she ran the feminist performance group and writing school Hekseskolen from 2015 to 2019. In collaboration with Danish publisher Gyldendal she edited a selection of Tove Ditlevsen's texts and books that relaunched Ditlevsen readership worldwide. Her new book, My Work, is forthcoming from New Directions in 2023.
MARTIN AITKEN has translated numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Peter Hoeg, Ida Jessen, and Kim Leine. He won the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of Hanne Orstavik's Love.
