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SUMMARY:The Employees by Olga Ravn (11th May 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize\n\nThe near
 -distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth.\n\nThe 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 numb
 er of strange objects from the planet New Discovery\, the crew is perplexe
 d to find itself becoming deeply attached to them\, and human and humanoid
  employees alike start aching for the same things: warmth and intimacy. Lo
 ved ones who have passed. Shopping and child-rearing. Our shared\, far-awa
 y Earth\, which now only persists in memory.\n\nGradually\, the crew membe
 rs 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.\n\nStructured as a series of witness statements compiled
  by a workplace commission\, Ravn s crackling prose is as chilling as it i
 s moving\, as exhilarating as it is foreboding. Wracked by all kinds of lo
 nging\, The Employees probes into what it means to be human\, emotionally 
 and ontologically\, while simultaneously delivering an overdue critique of
  a life governed by work and the logic of productivity. \n\n\n\nThe near-d
 istant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth. --From the Back Cover\n\
 n'The Employees considers the work that underlies others’ ability to dre
 am\, and the ways in which working with numinous objects may inspire a vis
 ion of a self-ownership and self-value in that labour\, and beyond it… A
  reminder of the all-too-often inorganic imaginaries of space fiction' --S
 o Mayer\n\n'An intriguing take on identity\, function\, and 'humanity’' 
 --The Complete Review\n\n
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