A review by discarded_dust_jacket
The Employees by Olga Ravn

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I’m not even sure how to talk about this book; its structure and voice is so unique. It’s strange, it’s deeply unsettling, it’s poignant, at times beautiful, and utterly entrancing.

This story asks us what it means to be human, while offering a satirical critique of the capitalist model of human worth in measures of productivity, all packaged in the form of a beautifully-crafted space opera where some very creepy alien artifacts are infecting the crew of a company spaceship with strange dreams, skin lesions, and these odd notions of personhood beyond occupational duty.
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