The Employees
$20.00
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2026
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 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1405976780 |
| Author: | Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 127mm x 11mm |
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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’s translations of Scandinavian fiction are widely published. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the International Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award and the US National Book Awards, among other prizes. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019 and, for the first book in the Morning Star cycle, the US National Translation Award in Prose in 2022. He lives in Denmark.
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