The unit : a novel / Ninni Holmqvist ; translated by Marlaine Delargy.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: New York : Other Press, ©2008Description: 268 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781590513132; 1590513134; 9781590513330; 1590513339Uniform titles: Enhet. English Subject(s): Middle-aged women -- Fiction | Health facilities -- Fiction | Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction | Human Experimentation | Organ Transplantation | Health Facilities | Women | Middle Aged | Love | Health facilities | Human experimentation in medicine | Middle-aged womenGenre/Form: Fictional Works. | Psychological fiction. | Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Dystopias. | Psychological fiction.DDC classification: 839.73/8 LOC classification: PT9876.18.O3324 | .E5413 2009Summary: In the Society, men and women past middle age who are single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industries are considered outsiders and are sequestered. They are kept healthy and are expected to gradually donate their organs to the "necessary" ones. But suppose two people who live in the Unit should fall in love?
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"Originally published in Swedish as Enhet by Norstedts, Sweden, in 2006"--Title page verso.
In the Society, men and women past middle age who are single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industries are considered outsiders and are sequestered. They are kept healthy and are expected to gradually donate their organs to the "necessary" ones. But suppose two people who live in the Unit should fall in love?
Translated from the Swedish.
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