She has also edited a selection of Tove Ditlevsen’s texts and books and was involved in the recent revival of Ditlevsen’s work in English. Her novel The Employees, translated by Martin Aitken, was nominated and shortlisted for numerous prizes, including the International Booker Prize and the inaugural Ursula K. Wracked by all kinds of longing, The Employees probes into what it means to be human, while delivering an overdue critique of a life governed by the logic of productivity.ĭescription 185 × 125 mm, 133 pages, Softcover Original Structured as a series of witness statements compiled by a workplace commission, Ravn’s crackling prose is as chilling as it is moving, as exhilarating as it is foreboding.
Gradually, the crew members come to see their work in a new light, and each employee is compelled to ask themselves whether they can carry on as before – and what it means to be truly living. Our shared, far-away Earth, which now only persists in memory. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew is perplexed to find itself becoming deeply attached to them, and human and humanoid employees alike start aching for the same things: warmth and intimacy. Those who will die, and those who will not. The crew of the Six-Thousand Ship consists of those who were born, and those who were made. Longlisted for the DUBLIN Literary Award 2022 Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021 Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken
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