Book Review: The Celtic Twilight by William Butler.

The father of the child makes his final organ donation the day after he learns of the pregnancy and Dorrit Wegner…

bringing it into the world and giving it up for adoption because they are aware that a once dispensable can’t become a needed individual again without putting the entire system in question. Dorrit Wegner has more or less put up with her situation when fate has it that she meets the man of her life in the unit of all places and the impossible happens: at the age of fifty-one years she gets pregnant! The officials responsible for the unit are shocked and bewildered because nothing like it has ever happened before, but in the end they leave her the choice between donating the foetus or carrying the child to term, i.e. Moreover, they are compulsory organ donors until it comes to the “final donation”, in other words until heart, lungs or another vital organ is removed to save a “needed” individual outside the unit. They serve as human guinea pigs subjected to all kinds of experiments, often cruel, useless or at least questionable ones. 'Holmqvist's is a book of quiet cruelty, and perhaps the most harrowing twist of all is that the world outside the walls of the Unit one with married. But she soon falls in love, and this unexpected, improbable happiness throws the future into doubt.In the unit “the dispensables” (thus the German title!) lead a life in luxury, but there’s an important hitch to it. When Dorrit Weger arrives at the Unit, she resigns herself to this fate, seeking only peace in her final days. Ninni Holmqvists eerie dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future where men and women deemed economically worthless are sent to a. It's an idyllic place, but there's a catch: the residents-known as dispensables-must donate their organs, one by one, until the final donation.

They're given lavish apartments set amongst beautiful gardens and state-of-the-art facilities they're fed elaborate gourmet meals, surrounded by others just like them. Ninni Holmqvist's uncanny dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future, where women over fifty and men over sixty who are unmarried and childless are sent to a retirement community called the Unit.

'Echoing work by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, The Unit is as thought-provoking as it is compulsively readable.' -Jessica Crispin, NPR.org Ninni Holmqvist’s 2009 book The Unit, newly reissued, imagines a world in which people who haven’t procreated are forced to make a differentultimatecontribution to society. 'I enjoyed The Unit very much.I know you will be riveted, as I was.' -Margaret Atwood on TwitterĪ modern day classic and a chilling cautionary tale for fans of The Handmaid's Tale.

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