The Unit posits a Sweden that's pretty much like the familiar contemporary Sweden, with one big social policy twist: those members of society deemed "dispensable" - without children, unmarried, in what are considered unessential jobs - are removed from it (at age fifty for women and sixty for men), interned at special facilities, and. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Holmqvists erster Roman, deren Handlung sie mit vielen Dialogen vorantreibt, ist nicht nur ziemlich traurig, sondern auch eine spannende Lektüre." - Matthias Wulff, Welt am Sonntag (.) Die Insassen haben keine Wahl, sie können nur das Datum der Endspende frei wählen.
"So seltsam es klingen mag, aber Holmqvist hat damit eine Liebeserklärung an das Leben, an die Natur geschrieben."Holmqvist's spare prose interweaves the Unit's pleasures and cruelties with exquisite matter-of-factness, so that readers actually begin to wonder: On balance, is life better as a pampered lab bunny or as a lonely indigent? But then she turns the screw, presenting a set of events so miraculous and abominable that they literally made me gasp." - Marcela Valdes, The Washington Post.Vore jag riktigt cynisk skulle jag till och med kalla den umbärlig." - Eva Johansson, Svenska Dagbladet (.) Hennes första roman är hur som helst inte helt lyckad. Men någonstans efter halva boken tappar berättelsen fart och börjar trampa runt i samma spår. Ett bra tag ser Enhet ut att vara en riktigt bra roman. "Ninni Holmqvist skriver med en effektiv blandning av varm inlevelse och registrerande kyla, och jag dras snabbt in i hennes klaustrofobiska framtidsvision."The novel’s thought experiment has limited scope, but Holmqvist evocatively details the experiences of a woman who falls in love with another resident, and at least momentarily attempts to escape her fate." - The New Yorker.
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