![]() The Unit s heroine, Dorrit, has chosen not to have children and thus spill over like rising bread dough at the book s opening, Dorrit s independence has just earned her incarceration in the Unit, a death camp puzzlingly replete with art galleries and gourmet restaurants where her individualism seems to lapse into passivity. The Unit uncannily echoes its organ-donation-dystopia predecessor, Kazuo Ishiguro s Never Let Me Go (2005) both imagine societies of extreme utilitarianism that plunder their margins for body parts, and both raise the prospect of art for art s sake, and love for love s, as weapons against such thinking. In The Unit, all childless women over fifty and childless men over sixty are classified as dispensable and removed to facilities where they take part in scientific experiments and eventually donate all of their organs to needed individuals. ![]() This is a dystopia for a shrinking country. And only a Scandinavian dystopia, perhaps, would see mandatory paternal leave as a slippery slope to compulsory childcare and then to compulsory parenthood and the criminalization of traditional gender roles. ![]() ![]() Only a Scandinavian dystopia would unravel in a setting furnished in a modern style and tastefully decorated in muted colors such as eggshell white. ![]()
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