What makes it exceptional, however, is the way it explores the richness and strangeness of being non-human. All the reviews say that the novel is, ultimately, about what it means to be human. A tantalizing puzzle you can never quite solve. The Employees is an alarmingly brilliant work of art.' - Max Porter A strange, beautiful, deeply intelligent and provocative investigation into humanity. I was obsessed from the first page to the last. The Employees is not only a disconcertingly quotidian space opera it's also an audacious satire of corporate language and the late-capitalist workplace, and a winningly abstracted investigation into what it means to be human… This clever, endlessly thought-provoking novel catches something of our recursive search for the nature of consciousness a question that answers itself, a voice in the darkness, an object moving through space.' - The Guardian (UK) 'A deeply sensory book, suffused with aroma and alert to tactility. This gorgeous, evocative novel is well worth the effort.' - Publishers Weekly While initially disorienting, the fragmented style builds into an achingly beautiful mosaic of fragile characters managing their longing, pain, and alienation. 'The crew of a spaceship far from Earth struggle with conflicting emotions in this slippery and deeply resonant International Booker shortlisted novel from Ravn.

Read more ©2018, 2021 Olga Ravn & Martin Aitken Gyldendal (P)2022 New Directions Publishing Corp. A book that strikes a rare balance between SF philosophy and workaday feeling all while whirling through space.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The Employees probes into what makes us human, while delivering a hilariously stinging critique of life governed by the logic of productivity. 'he world Ravn has created is familiar enough in its tropes and human(oid) emotions to infect the reader's imagination.

The Employees by Olga Ravn