The Unit is a frighteningly plausible novel, categorized as Adult Dystopian. The translation from Swedish is flawless and I was never aware that it was a translation while I was reading. Much of the dystopian fiction that I have read recently has been action focused, but this is a more contempl...
It says a lot about my life at the moment that I read this thinking how nice it would be to go and live in a place like The Unit. Outdoors is overrated and I tire of this shopping and cooking malarky. Anyway. It's pretty good but where it failed for me was with regards to one of the characters actio...
I certainly wish more books from this author will be translated and released. The Unit is a great book, full of melancholy and sadness of a proper dystopia. Felt very enriched when finished reading it.
This book was disturbing, but in a quiet way. It felt so real, so now, so damn concerning. Dorrit lives in a world that changed during her lifetime. The book did make me think of Never Let Me go. With the whole aspect that it feels so now, like it could happen any day. But that some people are not r...
I really wanted to love this book, but it just wasn’t happening. This has been on my to-read list for ages, and from the description sounded right up my alley. There may be a couple mild spoilers in here, but nothing you couldn't guess from just reading the blurb on the back cover. This book is fair...
"The Unit" spielt in Schweden zu einer Zeit, in der Frauen über 50 und Männer über 60, die aus Sicht der Regierung und der Gesellschaft bis dahin ein "selbstsüchtiges Leben" geführt haben und keine eigenen Kinder zum Wohlergehen des Landes beigetragen haben als "entbehrlich" angesehen werden. Sie mü...
This book was terrifying as a person who, in the world of the book, would in 8 years become a "dispensable person" since I don't have any children. Set in some future Sweden, people over the ages of 50 (for women) and 60 (for men) who are not "needed" by the demands of a child or an elderly parent i...
Meh. There's an interesting idea at the heart of this book, a sort of Logan's Run kind of idea, that asks "What if childless people were considered so worthless by society they just become living organ farms once they hit 50 (for women) or 60 (for men)?" The problem is the execution is so full of lo...
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