![]() Only 144 pages long and full of white space, The Employees achieves its macabre, chaotic mission at light speed., This is more than a clever reframing of sci-fi tropes, although it's that, too the employees' voices themselves, some of them desperate, some of them meditative, form a touching, alienated chorus, narrating a tragedy that for many will ring eerily true., A deeply sensory book, suffused with aroma and alert to tactility. As their obsession turns to mania, things start to go wrong in hilarious, grim, spectacular ways. Short as the novel is, some chapters just a few lines, it's intense, sumptuous, and utterly distinctive., The Employees is framed as a collection of increasingly bizarre memos filed by the crew of a deep-space vessel, who seem to be infatuated with the strange cargo they picked up from an alien world. Peeling off the first wrap, things look eerie, then at the next mundane, and while the crackle might sound like laughter, it also shivers with terror or poignancy. Olga Ravn's The Employees unpacks like a miraculous gift, alive with changes. ![]()
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