For most readers, The Unit is - or will be - one of those novels. On occasion, you come along novels that are so startling fresh and outspoken that they leave you thinking long after the last page. Review originally posted at Dangerously Cold Tea But she soon falls in love, and this unexpected, improbable happiness throws the future … ( more) When Dorrit Weger arrives at the Unit, she resigns herself to this fate, seeking only peace in her final days. It's an idyllic place, but there's a catch: the residentsâ?known as dispensablesâ?must donate their organs, one by one, until the final donation. They're given lavish apartments set amongst beautiful gardens and state-of-the-art facilities they're fed elaborate gourmet meals, surrounded by others just like them. Ninni Holmqvist's uncanny dystopian novel 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 retirement community called the Unit. "Echoing work by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, The Unit is as thought-provoking as it is compulsively readable." â?Jessica Crispin, NPR.org HTML: "I enjoyed The Unit very much.I know you will be riveted, as I was." â?Margaret Atwood on TwitterĪ modern day classic and a chilling cautionary tale for fans of The Handmaid's Tale.
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