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ISBN:	1590513134 (ISBN13: 9781590513132)
Edition Language:	English

The Unit

Ninni Holmqvist

Trade Paper | Pages: 268 pages

Rating: 3.72 | 7993 Users | 1197 Reviews

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Title	:	The Unit
Author	:	Ninni Holmqvist
Book Format	:	Trade Paper
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 268 pages
Published	:	June 9th 2009 by Other Press (NY) (first published August 29th 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia

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One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state of the art recreation facilities, and live the few remaining days of her life in comfort with people who are just like her. Here, women over the age of fifty and men over sixty-single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industries--are sequestered for their final few years; they are considered outsiders.

In the Unit they are expected to contribute themselves for drug and psychological testing, and ultimately donate their organs, little by little, until the final donation. Despite the ruthless nature of this practice, the ethos of this near-future society and the Unit is to take care of others, and Dorrit finds herself living under very pleasant conditions: well-housed, well-fed, and well-attended. She is resigned to her fate and discovers her days there to be rather consoling and peaceful.

But when she meets a man inside the Unit and falls in love, the extraordinary becomes a reality and life suddenly turns unbearable. Dorrit is faced with compliance or escape, and...well, then what?

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Ratings: 3.72 From 7993 Users | 1197 Reviews

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Wow I just flew through The Unit, and now my heart just aches for Dorrit, the Dispensables and for the society.It's the near-future in Sweden, a society that values capital and societal value above individual life. If you are childless, not in a protected job, have no dependents and no loving relationship, you are considered to be "dispensable." Dispensables are taken to The Unit at age 50 for women or 60 for men-i.e. after they are no longer reproductively viable, with the intent to give back

This was a very upsetting and uncomfortable book to read. I actually cannot remember reading a book that made me so upset and downright angry. I think the most upsetting part was the idea out forth in the book that if you didnt make the right life decisions, specifically have children or find someone who love you, you became a unwanted person. In The Unit self worth is only determined by others. It doesnt matter how happy you are or comfortable you may be in your own skin, you are only worth

At the end of this book I cried. Not with sadness at Dorrit's sacrifice and losses. But because since I've been an adult, I've never read a book that I felt so understood me. Those were the words I thought to myself as hot tears came to my eyes: "she understands." It is Elsa I cried for. And all the others.When you read a lot, you recognize that those tropes you hear about how there are oly 7 plots in the world (or 10 or 5 or 3) are true. So when you run across a book with a truly novel point of

I am a bit ambiguous about this book. The translator did a wonderful job translating the story into English. And it was very fast paced and enjoyable.What has me torn is the fact there is another book with a similar premiss. Just that the age group is different. So I am having a hard time separating the two.Aside from that, it is a wonderful story.

The Unit is billed as a Sci-Fi dystopia. If so, it's just barely so. It's speculative with a lower case "s" but little more than that.Told in the first person by Dorrit Weger -- the most insipid, pathetic, annoying narrator I've read in years -- The Unit is about a future in Sweden where old "dispensable" people (women at fifty and men at sixty who have no families or partners who've avowed love for them), are harvested for their organs and made subjects for medical testing while living the

A very strong four stars, and I'm so pleased! This could not have been paced more salubriously. I also finished Girl With the Dragon Tattoo recently, and I'm just loving these Swedes' plotting and pacing. (Then again, I've always been a sucker for anything remotely Scandinavian.)I've been a rabid Dollhouse fan since the beginning, so I was already familiar and infatuated with the premise of the "serene spa-like environment*" in which inhumane, insidiously pseudo-consensual slavery takes place.

Meh. There's an interesting idea at the heart of this book, a sort of Logan's Run kind of idea, that asks "What if childless people were considered so worthless by society they just become living organ farms once they hit 50 (for women) or 60 (for men)?" The problem is the execution is so full of logical holes I kept wanting to throw the book at the wall. There are so many my head hurts just trying to think of them all for the purpose of a review. I was also highly annoyed to be told 15 pages