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A review by libbysbookshelf
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn
THE EMPLOYEES by OLGA RAVN translated by MARTIN AITKEN
Danish 🇩🇰
This was longlisted for the International Booker last year and I took a long time to get to it. Silly me!
I picked this up to read at 9 p.m. the other night, and I didn’t sleep until I’d read it all (11 p.m. — it’s a very short book).
The novel is made up of a series of statements from employees on board a spaceship. It is unclear why they’re on the ship and it’s unclear what has happened to Earth, but it doesn’t look good.
The employees are made up of humans and humanoids, or AIs, very intelligent AIs. That’s it really, but of course it’s so much more than that.
It’s actually quite brilliant and I thoroughly enjoyed this little slice of literary sci-fi.
More Danish books for me, please. Luckily I went mad in the @lollieditions sale, so I have a lot to choose from!
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Danish 🇩🇰
This was longlisted for the International Booker last year and I took a long time to get to it. Silly me!
I picked this up to read at 9 p.m. the other night, and I didn’t sleep until I’d read it all (11 p.m. — it’s a very short book).
The novel is made up of a series of statements from employees on board a spaceship. It is unclear why they’re on the ship and it’s unclear what has happened to Earth, but it doesn’t look good.
The employees are made up of humans and humanoids, or AIs, very intelligent AIs. That’s it really, but of course it’s so much more than that.
It’s actually quite brilliant and I thoroughly enjoyed this little slice of literary sci-fi.
More Danish books for me, please. Luckily I went mad in the @lollieditions sale, so I have a lot to choose from!
#womenintranslationmonth #danishliterature #bookstagramreadsthebooker #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookrecommendations #bookreview #bookrecommendation #bookreader #bookreviews #bookreviewer #bookrecs #bookreviewersofinstagram #bookrec