Narrator: Suzanne Toren

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 useful 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?

The Unit is a gripping exploration of a society in the throes of an experiment,
in which the .dispensable. ones are convinced under gentle coercion of the
importance of sacrificing for the .necessary. ones. Ninni Holmqvist has created
a debut novel of humor, sorrow, and rage about love, the close bonds of
friendship, and about a cynical, utilitarian way of thinking disguised as care.

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