We Had To Remove This Post
Published on 1. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-5290-8724-6 (ISBN)
Description
Does what you see change who you are?
Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts need to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend. For the first time in her life, the future seems bright . . . But soon the job begins to shift Kayleigh's world in alarming ways. In the glare of the screen, how long can Kayleigh hold on to her humanity?
Hanna Bervoets' stunning novel We Had To Remove This Post is translated from the Dutch by Emma Rault.
'This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today . . . Fascinating and disturbing' - Ling Ma, author of Severance
Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts need to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend. For the first time in her life, the future seems bright . . . But soon the job begins to shift Kayleigh's world in alarming ways. In the glare of the screen, how long can Kayleigh hold on to her humanity?
Hanna Bervoets' stunning novel We Had To Remove This Post is translated from the Dutch by Emma Rault.
'This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today . . . Fascinating and disturbing' - Ling Ma, author of Severance
Reviews / Votes
The dank underside of social media, its cruelty and delusions, have become, our shared affliction. It needed an accomplished novelist to explore humanely the damage. Hanna Bervoets has richly obliged in this superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling. -- Ian McEwan, author of <i>Atonement</i>, <i>On Chesil Beach</i> and <i>Amsterdam</i> This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today, a job that extracts an immeasurable psychic toll. Fascinating and disturbing. -- Ling Ma, author of <i>Severance</i> We Had To Remove This Post is one of the most fascinating books I've read in years. -- Kristen Arnett, author of <i>Mostly Dead Things</i> and <i>With Teeth</i> I thought it was incredible and has real cult potential. -- Alice Slater * TikTok * A discomfiting mystery about the disturbing parts of social media that most people never see * New York Times * Powerful, discussable, and a harbinger of a voice-in-translation to watch. * Booklist Starred Review * Scathing, darkly humorous exploration of the impact of VR, IR . . . Bervoets just gets it. This is, unironically, a novel for our time. * Kirkus Starred Review * Hanna Bervoet's slim, compelling novel We Had to Remove This Post addresses the foetid morass of social media . . . Bevoets is often acidly funny, especially when demonstraring the workers' mordant, jockish humour. * TLS *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
110 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5290-8724-6 (9781529087246)
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Hanna Bervoets is one of the most acclaimed Dutch writers of her generation. She is the author of several novels in her home country of the Netherlands, and she has also written screenplays, plays, short stories, and essays. She is the recipient of many literary awards, including the prestigious Frans Kellendonk Prize for her entire body of work. She was a resident at Art Omi: Writers at Ledig House, New York, and currently works and lives in Amsterdam with her girlfriend and two guinea pigs. We Had to Remove This Post has been translated into thirteen languages and is her first book to be translated into English.