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020 $a9781590513132 (hardcover)
020 $a1590513134 (hardcover)
020 $a9781590513330 (electronic text)
020 $a1590513339 (electronic text)
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100 1 $aHolmqvist, Ninni,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2002001425
240 10 $aEnhet.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008078857
245 14 $aThe unit :$ba novel /$cNinni Holmqvist ; translated by Marlaine Delargy.
260 $aNew York :$bOther Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $a268 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"Originally published in Swedish as Enhet by Norstedts, Sweden, in 2006"--T.p. verso.
520 1 $a"One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state-of-the-art recreation facilities, and live the remaining days of her life in comfort with people who are just like her. Here, women over the age of fifty and men over sixty - single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industries - are sequestered for their final years; they are considered outsiders." "In the Unit they are expected to contribute themselves for drug and psychological testing, and ultimately donate their organs, little by little, until the final donation. Despite the ruthless nature of this practice, the ethos of this near-future society and the Unit is to take care of others, and Dorrit finds herself living under very pleasant conditions: well-housed, well-fed, and well-attended. She is resigned to her fate and discovers her days there to be rather consoling and peaceful. But when she meets a man inside the Unit and falls in love, the extraordinary becomes a reality and life suddenly turns unbearable. Dorrit is faced with compliance or escape, and ... well, then what?" "The Unit is an exploration of a society in the throes of a system geared toward eliminating those who do not contribute by conventional means, in which the "dispensable" ones are convinced under gentle coercion of the importance of sacrificing for the "necessary" ones. It also looks deeply into the nature of the female psyche, at its resilience and creativity under dire conditions."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMiddle-aged women$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107256
650 0 $aHealth facilities$vFiction.
650 0 $aHuman experimentation in medicine$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008121883
655 7 $aDystopias.$2gsafd
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026492
700 1 $aDelargy, Marlaine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92107093
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