{"product_id":"the-employees","title":"The Employees","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOlga Ravn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Employees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFunny and doom-drenched,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Employees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003echronicles the fate of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSix-Thousand Ship\u003c\/i\u003e. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew become strangely and deeply attached to them, and start aching for the same things—warmth and intimacy, loved ones who have passed, shopping and child-rearing, and faraway Earth, which now only persists in memory—even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOlga Ravn's prose is chilling, crackling, exhilarating, and foreboding.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Employees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprobes into what makes us human, while delivering a hilariously stinging critique of life governed by the logic of productivity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UTP","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49573547835678,"sku":"9781771667609","price":20.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/3584\/9246\/files\/BNCImageAPI-2025-02-08T104713.208.jpg?v=1739029656","url":"https:\/\/www.cedarcanoebooks.com\/products\/the-employees","provider":"Cedar Canoe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}