Olga Ravn

Les employés

The Employees

A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
January 6, 2020
Novel
176 pages
128 × 190 mm
18 €
9782924898505
978-2-9248-9850-5
Translated from the Danish by Christine Berlioz and Laila Flink Thullesen
																Olga Ravn, Les employés
																Olga Ravn, Les employés

As chilling as it is moving, this science fiction reveals the distress of humans forced to live far from home and the questioning of similar people about their emotional capacities.

In an indistinct future, millions of miles from Earth, employees are working on the six thousandth ship of a powerful and mysterious totalitarian-looking company. There are humans and there are people like them. There are those who were born and those who were created. Those who will die and those who won’t.
Over a period of eighteen months, a commission is compiling a series of testimonies about the relationships and production on board the ship where the activity often consists of watching strange buzzing objects, which improve the mood, fertilize dreams and hallucinate consciences.

The author

Olga Ravn is a Danish poet and novelist. In the beginning, she published poetry that was critically acclaimed, as was her first novel Célestine. She is also a translator and has worked as a literary critic for Politiken and several other Danish publications.

January 6, 2020
Novel
176 pages
128 × 190 mm
18 €
9782924898505
978-2-9248-9850-5
Translated from the Danish by Christine Berlioz and Laila Flink Thullesen