The Employees - Olva Ravn

Translated by Martin Aitken

Told through a series of statements from employees aboard a vessel orbiting a distant planet, this novel unfolds like a corporate inquiry into unease. The crew both human and humanoid are responding to strange objects brought on board. The objects provoke longing. Memory. Disruption.

What begins as sterile documentation becomes something intimate and destabilising.

This is science fiction stripped back...minimal, eerie, philosophical. It asks what makes a body human. What work does to identity. What we carry with us when we leave Earth.

The tone is cool, precise, slightly uncanny. The fragments build slowly into something quietly devastating.

For readers who like their fiction strange and contemplative.

Office politics, but existential.

Format: Paperback 
Publisher: New Directions
Page count: 125
ISBN: 9780811234825
Origin: Denmark
Condition: NEAR NEW