See a virtual book talk on "The Employees" with author Olga Ravn and translator Martin Aitken! With moderator Katrine Øgaard Jensen, they discuss the novel, currently out in translation from Lolli Editions and shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.
In the near-distant future, millions of kilometers from Earth, the crew of the Six-Thousand Ship consists of those who were born, and those who were made; those who will die, and those who will not. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew is perplexed to find itself becoming deeply attached to them, and human and humanoid employees alike start aching for the same things: warmth and intimacy; loved ones who have passed; shopping and child-rearing; our shared, far-away Earth, which now only persists in memory.
Gradually, the crew members come to see their work in a new light, and each employee is compelled to ask themselves whether they can carry on as before – and what it means to be truly living.
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