The Unit (2009)

At fifty, writer Dorrit Weger is classified as dispensable and sent to a comfortable institution where residents must surrender their bodies for other people’s benefit. Her friendships, desire and creative work make the judgement of uselessness increasingly intolerable. Read in Marlaine Delargy’s English translation for spare, controlled dystopian fiction. This is a painful choice about bodily autonomy and social worth, with little of an adventure novel’s reassuring momentum.