INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN – “The Unit”, Swedish writer Ninni Holmqvist’s dystopian novel, has been published in Persian.Shurafarin is the publisher of
the book translated by Hengameh Nahid.One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological
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?Photo: Cover of the Persian edition of Ninni Holmqvist’s novel “The
