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"I appreciated The Unit very much....I know you will be riveted, when i was." —Margaret Atwood, @margaretatwood
“Echoing work by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, The Unit is really as though-provoking as it is compulsively readable.” —Jessica Crispin, NPR.org
Ninni Holmqvist’s uncanny dystopian book envisions a society in the not-so-distant future, where women over fifty and men over sixty who are unmarried and childless are sent to a pension community called the Unit. They’re given luxurious apartments set between beautiful landscapes and state-of-the-art facilities; they’re fed elaborate gourmet dishes, encircled by others exactly like them. It’s an idyllic place, but there’s a capture: the residents—known as dispensables—must donate their organs, one at a time, until the last donation. When Dorrit Weger finds the Unit, she resigns herself to the destiny, seeking only peacefulness in her last times. But she soon comes in love, which unexpected, improbable contentment throws the near future into uncertainty.
Clinical and haunting, The Unit is a modern-day common and a chilling cautionary story about the worthiness of individual life.
