Book Review of The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist (ISBN: 978-1590513132, Other Press) is a Dystopian book. Be prepared for a novel that seeps silently into your psyche and gives you the chills. This is one unusual and absorbing story that is not easily forgotten. Dorrit Weger lives in a future society where if you’re a woman that’s not considered to be the cream of the crop, neither holding down an important job nor needed by anyone, you’re considered of little value after you reach your fiftieth birthday. You become a “dispensable”. (For males, it’s sixty).

Like oracles of old, Ninni Holmqvist subtly forewarns us with this exquisite novel of the perilous path we’re treading in our own universe.