The Employees - Couverture rigide

Ravn, Olga

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0811231356 ISBN 13 : 9780811231350

Editeur : New Directions, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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.

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811231356
• ISBN 13: 9780811231350
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 125
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