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The unit

One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state of the art recreation facilities, and live the few remaining days of her life in comfort with people who are just like her. Here, women over the age of fifty and men over sixty'single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industries'are sequestered for their final few years; they are considered outsiders. In the Unit they are expected to contribute themselves for drug and psychological testing, and ultimately donate their organs, little by little, until the final donation. Despite the ruthless nature of this practice, the ethos of this near-future society and the Unit is to take care of others, and Dorrit finds herself living under very pleasant conditions: well-housed, well-fed, and well-attended. She is resigned to her fate and discovers her days there to be rather consoling and peaceful. But when she meets a man inside the Unit and falls in love, the extraordinary becomes a reality and life suddenly turns unbearable. Dorrit is faced with compliance or escape, and'well, then what' THE UNIT is a gripping exploration of a society in the throes of an experiment, in which the "dispensable" ones are convinced under gentle coercion of the importance of sacrificing for the "necessary" ones. Ninni Holmqvist has created a debut novel of humor, sorrow, and rage about love, the close bonds of friendship, and about a cynical, utilitarian way of thinking disguised as care. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state of the art recreation facilities, and live the few remaining days of her life in comfort with people who are just like her. Here, women over the age of fifty and men over sixty'single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industries'are sequestered for their final few years; they are considered outsiders. In the Unit they are expected to contribute themselves for drug and psychological testing, and ultimately donate their organs, little by little, until the final donation. Despite the ruthless nature of this practice, the ethos of this near-future society and the Unit is to take care of others, and Dorrit finds herself living under very pleasant conditions: well-housed, well-fed, and well-attended. She is resigned to her fate and discovers her days there to be rather consoling and peaceful. But when she meets a man inside the Unit and falls in love, the extraordinary becomes a reality and life suddenly turns unbearable. Dorrit is faced with compliance or escape, and'well, then what' THE UNIT is a gripping exploration of a society in the throes of an experiment, in which the "dispensable" ones are convinced under gentle coercion of the importance of sacrificing for the "necessary" ones. Ninni Holmqvist has created a debut novel of humor, sorrow, and rage about love, the close bonds of friendship, and about a cynical, utilitarian way of thinking disguised as care. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "Dorrit Weger checks into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material, a place where single, childless women over fifty and men over sixty without jobs in progressive industries are sent to live out their remaining days in comfort while offering themselves for drug and psychological testing and organ donations, and she is quite content with her lot until she falls in love and begins to see more value in her life."@en
  • "On her fiftieth birthday, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material: a state-of-the-art facility in Sweden where she will make new friends, enjoy generous recreational activities and live out her remaining days in comfort with people who are just like her. Here, women over the age of fifty and men over the age of sixty who are single and childless are saved from a life devoid of value and converted into productive members of society. The price? Their bodies, harvested piece by piece for the ‘necessary' ones (those on whom children depend) and sometimes t."@en
  • "Ein Sanatorium voller Luxus und Komfort. Eine Gesellschaft, die nur auf ihre produktivsten Mitglieder, die "Benötigten", setzt. Und eine Frau, die ihnen ihren Körper und ihr Leben opfern soll. Weil sie fünfzig ist. Weil sie keine Kinder hat. Und weil sie liest. Eine Entbehrliche."
  • "In the Society, men and women past middle age who are single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industries are considered outsiders and are sequestered. They are kept healthy and are expected to gradually donate their organs to the "necessary" ones. But suppose two people who live in the Unit should fall in love?"
  • "When Dorrit Wegner turned fifty, the government transferred her to a state-of-the-art facility where she could live out her days in comfort, all at the very reasonable non-negotiable price of one cardiopulmonary system. But when Dorrit finds love, she must fight to escape before her - final donation."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Dystopias"@en
  • "Dystopias"

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  • "The unit"
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  • "L'unité"
  • "De eenheid"
  • "The unit : a novel"@en
  • "The unit : a novel"
  • "The unit a novel"@en
  • "Potrošni"
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  • "The Unit"
  • "Enheten"
  • "Die Entbehrlichen : [Roman]"
  • "Die Entbehrlichen : Roman"

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