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Enhet (2006)

by Ninni Holmqvist(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9113016121 (ISBN13: 9789113016122)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Norstedts

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 they are subjected to various testing and organ harvesting. One is "dispensable" if s/he does not have children or does not create economic growth, so there are many artists and writers. Life is sterile but pleasant for the inhabitants, and Dorrit finds more friends than she has ever had before. Then she falls deeply in love, and miraculously gets pregnant despite her age. Has she become useful now, and what will happen to her, the father and the baby? A sympathetic worker provides her with a m... moreeans to escape the Unit. Will they break out? What I liked best about this book was the way it conveyed the Swedish view of life, and a myriad of social issues. Excellent job by the translator.
review 2: "The Unit" is a Swedish near future dystopia. How near? Near enough that everything could be yesterday, today or tomorrow from the look of everything about. Except for the social dystopia part. I tend to like good dystopian fiction. I like the part of this story that makes you think of society around you and relationships with friends, family and animals. Unfortunately the setting itself just didn't make any sense to me. I couldn't see how we could get from "here", our world, to "there", the brave new world of sorts in a relative heartbeat. The explanation given was quite minimal. I also, try as I might, couldn't figure out why we would even be "there" since as far as I could tell, it was not rational in this seemingly overmanaged rational "democracy". This unfortunately impacted my enjoyment of the story as I constantly kept thinking how irrational this was. There are many good insights within this story on the value of individuals. And on the human heart. But in the end, overall, this didn't work for me. I couldn't buy it. I really couldn't buy it. The premise is entirely irrational, the endgame perhaps even moreso and that is why this fails for me. This novel gets a fair amount of praise but I can't recommend it. less

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