And about what happiness might be.” -2021 International Booker Prize Judges’ Citation: In deceptively simple prose, threaded on a fully achieved and ambitiously experimental structure, it asks big questions about sentience and the nature of humanity. “This beautiful and moving novel, set in a workplace-a spaceship some time in the future-is by turns loving and cold, funny and deliberately prosaic capable of building a sense of existential horror one minute then quotidian comfort and private grief the next. Le Guin and Nell Zink had a baby.” - Tank Magazine What makes it exceptional, however, is the way it explores the richness and strangeness of being non-human.” -Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time All the reviews say that the novel is, ultimately, about what it means to be human. A tantalizing puzzle you can never quite solve. The Employees is an alarmingly brilliant work of art.” -Max Porter, author of Lanny A strange, beautiful, deeply intelligent and provocative investigation into humanity. I was obsessed from the first page to the last. “ The Employees is not only a disconcertingly quotidian space opera it’s also an audacious satire of corporate language and the late-capitalist workplace, and a winningly abstracted investigation into what it means to be human.” - The Guardian
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