The Employees
$30.18
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
6 November 2025
Summary
The Yearning of the Six-Thousand Ship: A Sci-Fi Masterpiece
‘I was obsessed from the first page to the last. A strange, beautiful, deeply intelligent and provocative investigation into humanity. The Employees is an alarmingly brilliant work of art’ Max Porter
On the Six-Thousand Ship, things have started to feel changed. Since bringing aboard a number of strange objects from a newly discovered planet, the crew – both human and humanoid – have begun …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405976787 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1405976780 |
| Author: | Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 6 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Olga Ravn
Olga Ravn (Author)
Olga Ravn is one of Denmark’s most celebrated contemporary authors. Her novel The Employees was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021, the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize and longlisted for the National Book Awards and the Dublin Literary Award. Her novel My Work won the Politikens Literature Prize in 2021 and led to changes in the country’s maternity rights. She has also written shorter pieces for the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Granta.
Martin Aitken (Translator)
Martin Aitken has translated the works of many Scandinavian writers, among them Karl Ove Knausgaard, Helle Helle, Hanne Ørstavik and Olga Ravn. He lives in Denmark.
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