The unit
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ninni Holmqvist ; translated by Marlaine Delargy.
Contributors: Delargy, Marlaine.
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781590513132; 9781590513330
Subjects: Middle-aged women -- Fiction; Health facilities -- Fiction; Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Enhet.
Description: 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?
Notes: "Originally published in Swedish as Enhet by Norstedts, Sweden, in 2006"--T.p. verso.