We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
For readers of Leila Slimanis Lullaby or Ling Mas Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel.
The dank underside of social media, its cruelty and delusions, have become, our shared afflictionIt 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 Atonement, On Chesil Beach and Amsterdam
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 Severance
We Had To Remove This Post is one of the most fascinating books I’ve read in years. -- Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth
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 *
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 Severance
We Had To Remove This Post is one of the most fascinating books I’ve read in years. -- Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth
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 *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781529087246 |
| ISBN 10 | 1529087244 |
| Title | We Had To Remove This Post |
| Author | Hanna Bervoets |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2023-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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