![]() ![]() ![]() “I sat down to read Hanna’s novel-brilliantly translated from the Dutch by Emma Rault-and was so gripped, I couldn’t put it down.” - Ansa Khan Khattak, commissioning editor at Picador UK “Hanna Bervoets’s acid-dipped novella is a glimpse of the foetid underbelly of the internet and a sobering consideration of who is deciding what we see, and at what cost.” - The Times “Bervoets’ writing is vivid, eerie, and beguilingly conversational…Powerful, discussable, and a harbinger of a voice-in-translation to watch.” - starred review, Booklist “This is, unironically, a novel for our time.” - starred review, Kirkus Reviews “A discomfiting mystery about the disturbing parts of social media that most people never see…surprising and enigmatic…intriguing and frustrating.” - The New York Times A brave enterprise for both writer and translator…taut as a thriller, sharp as a slug of ice-cold vodka.” - The Irish Times ![]() “Translated into English with appropriate jitteriness and jarriness by Emma Rault. until the violence strikes closer to home. We Had to Remove This Post Hanna Bervoets Mariner Books/Picador, May 2022įor readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma’s Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors-reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation-who convince themselves they’re in control. ![]()
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