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.
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.
General
| Imprint: |
New Directions Publishing Corporation
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2023 |
| Authors: |
Olga Ravn
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| Translators: |
Martin Aitken
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| Dimensions: |
185 x 114 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
144 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8112-3482-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-8112-3482-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780811234825 |
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