The Employees, 9781405976787
Paperback
Longing and rebellion blur human, machine, work, and home in space.

The Employees

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  • Paperback

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    9 February 2026

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Summary

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, The Employees is one of the most beloved and influential science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.

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 to feel a yearning. They want to be near the objects, to feel them pressed against their skin, but they also all now feel a curiou…

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:9 February 2026
Weight:128g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 13mm
About The Author

Olga Ravn

Olga Ravn

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

Martin Aitken has translated numerous novels from Norwegian and Danish. He has received the PEN America Translation Prize and the National Translation Award in Prose, and his work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Awards, and the Dublin Literary Award.

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