This gorgeous, evocative novel is well worth the effort. Le Guin and Nell Zink had a baby.Īn achingly beautiful mosaic of fragile characters managing their longing, pain, and alienation. What makes it exceptional, however, is the way it explores the richness and strangeness of being non-human. All the reviews say that the novel is, ultimately, about what it means to be human. A tantalizing puzzle you can never quite solve. The Employees is not only a disconcertingly quotidian space opera it’s also an audacious satire of corporate language and the late-capitalist workplace, and a winningly abstracted investigation into what it means to be human… This clever, endlessly thought-provoking novel catches something of our recursive search for the nature of consciousness a question that answers itself, a voice in the darkness, an object moving through space.īeautiful, sinister, gripping. A deeply sensory book, suffused with aroma and alert to tactility.
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