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The Unit : A Novel Paperback Ninni Holmqvist
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- Seller Notes
- Publication Name
- Other Press, LLC
- ISBN
- 9781590519271
- Book Title
- Unit : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Other Press, LLC
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Dystopian, General, Science Fiction / General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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I enjoyed The Unit very much...I know you will be riveted, as I was. --Margaret Atwood on Twitter A modern day classic and a chilling cautionary tale for fans of The Handmaid's Tale . Named a BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH by GQ . "Echoing work by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, The Unit is as thought-provoking as it is compulsively readable." --Jessica Crispin, NPR.org Ninni Holmqvist's uncanny dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future, where women over fifty and men over sixty who are unmarried and childless are sent to a retirement community called the Unit. They're given lavish apartments set amongst beautiful gardens and state-of-the-art facilities; they're fed elaborate gourmet meals, surrounded by others just like them. It's an idyllic place, but there's a catch: the residents--known as dispensables--must donate their organs, one by one, until the final donation. When Dorrit Weger arrives at the Unit, she resigns herself to this fate, seeking only peace in her final days. But she soon falls in love, and this unexpected, improbable happiness throws the future into doubt.
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Publisher
Other Press, LLC
ISBN-10
1590519272
ISBN-13
9781590519271
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Unit : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Dystopian, General, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
12 Oz
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Reviews
"A haunting, deadpan tale set vaguely in the Scandinavian future...Holmqvist's spare prose interweaves the Unit's pleasures and cruelties with exquisite matter-of-factness...[Holmqvist] turns the screw, presenting a set of events so miraculous and abominable that they literally made me gasp." -- Washington Post "Orwellian horrors in a Xanadu on Xanax--creepily profound and most provocative." -- Kirkus Reviews "This haunting first novel imagines a nation in which men and women who haven't had children by a certain age are taken to a 'reserve bank unit for biological material' and subjected to various physical and psychological experiments, while waiting to have their organs harvested for 'needed' citizens in the outside world... Holmqvist evocatively details the experiences of a woman who falls in love with another resident, and at least momentarily attempts to escape her fate." -- New Yorker "This is one of the best books I've read over the past two years...Thought-provoking and emotionally-moving, The Unit is a book you'll be discussing with others long after you're done reading it." -- Orlando Sentinel "Like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale , this novel imagines a chilling dystopia: single, childless, midlife women are considered dispensable. At 50 the narrator, Dorrit, is taken to a facility where non-vital organs will be harvested one by one for people more valued by society; she knows that eventually she'll have to sacrifice something essential' like her heart. Dorrit accepts her fate-until she falls in love and finds herself breaking the rules." -- More magazine "Holmqvist handles her dystopia with muted, subtle care...Neither satirical nor polemical, The Unit manages to express a fair degree of moral outrage without ever moralizing...it has enough spooks to make it a feminist, philosophical page-turner." -- Time Out Chicago " The Unit raises issues of love, gender, freedom, and social mores through the perspective of how we assess an individual's contribution to society...Holmqvist's ability to invest the reader in both the story and the characters is exceptional. It is a book you hesitate to put down... The Unit deserves a wide readership." --Blogcritics.org "Chilling...stunning...Holmqvist's fluid, mesmerizing novel offers unnerving commentary on the way society devalues artistic creation while elevating procreation, and speculation on what it would be like if that was taken to an extreme. For Orwell and Huxley fans." -- Booklist "An exploration of female desire, human need, and the purpose of life." -- Publishers Weekly
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Dewey Decimal
839.73/8
Dewey Edition
22
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