Books by Ninni Holmqvist
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review 1: What a brilliant concept! Anyone who is interested in utilitarian bioethics may enjoy this book. The author creates a society in which anyone who is not "needed" (i.e. a parent, or other caretaker) is considered "expendable". At age fifty for women and sixty for men, expendables ...
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review 1: 3.75 stars. This book takes place in Sweden, sometime in the near future. Dorret Weger has just turned 50 and must surrender her existence and dog, in order to be remanded to the Unit. 50+ year old women and 60+ year old men, deemed not needed by society go to the Unit, where t...
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review 1: Haunting and incredibly good. Dystopic fiction helps put perspective on the complaints and problems we half-heartedly curse in our own lives.Quotes...as if he were lapping up my feelings with his big, rough, psychologist's tongue. p 86"...Life and existence have no value in them...