QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling review – a hit-and-miss riff on capitalist ills
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/05/qualityland-marc-uwe-kling-review
A scrap-metal merchant is unlucky in love and online shopping in this German dystopian comic satire
A bestseller in Germany, this knockabout dystopia unfolds in the rampantly consumerist state of QualityLand, where mending is outlawed (“To make the markets fly, we just have to buy!”) and citizens are ranked by algorithm, dictating “the intensity with which the police will investigate if one is unlucky enough to be murdered”.
Set against the backdrop of an election run-off between a far-right demagogue and a low-polling android advocating universal basic income, the plot turns on the Kafkaesque travails of a scrap-metal merchant, Peter Jobless, who struggles to persuade TheShop, “the world’s most popular online retailer”, to take back a pink dolphin-shaped vibrator delivered in error.
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