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    Wolff, Lina Carnality Info Sheet Eng

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    A Swedish writer travels to Madrid for inspiration and meets a man in a bar who has an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for a place to stay, he shares his fantastic tale involving an internet TV show with a morality clause, threats to his life, a diabolical nun, and a girl with a missing thumb. The writer later meets the storyteller's infernal miracle worker Lucia, who forces her to make a fateful decision about her own essence. Set in the grimy underbelly of society, the novel explores humanity's universal need for spirituality and truth through an intriguing narrative. The author Lina Wolff has previously won awards for her unique novels that blend surrealism with sharp social commentary

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    A Swedish writer travels to Madrid for inspiration and meets a man in a bar who has an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for a place to stay, he shares his fantastic tale involving an internet TV show with a morality clause, threats to his life, a diabolical nun, and a girl with a missing thumb. The writer later meets the storyteller's infernal miracle worker Lucia, who forces her to make a fateful decision about her own essence. Set in the grimy underbelly of society, the novel explores humanity's universal need for spirituality and truth through an intriguing narrative. The author Lina Wolff has previously won awards for her unique novels that blend surrealism with sharp social commentary

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    A Swedish writer travels to Madrid for inspiration and meets a man in a bar who has an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for a place to stay, he shares his fantastic tale involving an internet TV show with a morality clause, threats to his life, a diabolical nun, and a girl with a missing thumb. The writer later meets the storyteller's infernal miracle worker Lucia, who forces her to make a fateful decision about her own essence. Set in the grimy underbelly of society, the novel explores humanity's universal need for spirituality and truth through an intriguing narrative. The author Lina Wolff has previously won awards for her unique novels that blend surrealism with sharp social commentary

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    Wolff, Lina Carnality Info Sheet Eng

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    A Swedish writer travels to Madrid for inspiration and meets a man in a bar who has an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for a place to stay, he shares his fantastic tale involving an internet TV show with a morality clause, threats to his life, a diabolical nun, and a girl with a missing thumb. The writer later meets the storyteller's infernal miracle worker Lucia, who forces her to make a fateful decision about her own essence. Set in the grimy underbelly of society, the novel explores humanity's universal need for spirituality and truth through an intriguing narrative. The author Lina Wolff has previously won awards for her unique novels that blend surrealism with sharp social commentary

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    Fic on

    Lina Wolff

    Carnality
    The August Prize‐winning
    author returns

    A literary feast by the author of the award‐winning,


    75 000 copy bestseller, The Polyglot Lovers.
    A Swedish writer travels to Madrid for inspira on for her next project,
    where she meets a man in a bar with an extraordinary story to tell. In
    exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is
    willing to tell her the whole extraordinary tale. What follows is an ac-
    count of fantas c propor ons and ingredients: the existence of a shad-
    owy internet tv show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the
    storyteller’s life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing
    le thumb.

    It is also the precursor to a mee ng between the writer and the infer-
    nal miracle worker, Lucia—a mee ng that ul mately forces the writer
    to make a fateful decision about her own inner essence.
    Rights sold
    CARNALITY is a novel about the universal need for spirituality and Danish: Grif
    truth—not to forget a good story—set in the decidedly unspiritual Dutch: Atlas Contact
    German: Hoffman & Campe
    grimy underbelly of society. Norwegian: Under offer

    Op ons
    ‘The author is back in the same burlesque, sa rical form as before, and Croa an: Naklada Ljevak
    Czech: Albatros
    works with such sharp twists and turns that at least I, from me to Estonian: Varrak
    me, forget to breathe…. You can...experience something reminiscent Farsi: Café 60
    French: Gallimard
    of what Pedro Almodóvar elicits in his movies...we have an author who Greek: Psichogios
    has both the tools and ability to create an intrigue that forces its way Italian: Codice
    Macedonian: ArtConnect
    in, crea ng meaning and opening up your heart. ’ Polish: Marginesy
    – Dagens Nyheter Romanian: Casa Car i De S inta
    Russian: AST License
    ‘It reminds me of Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy...If you have been mes- Serbian: Heliks
    Turkish: Nebula Kitap
    merized by Lina Wolff’s unique novels before, CARNALITY will not disap- Ukrainian: Vydavnytstvo
    point. Personally, I hold Lina Wolff as one of Sweden’s foremost
    Previous publishers
    writers.’ English (World): And other stories
    – Landskrona‐Posten Publica on
    Albert Bonniers Förlag
    August 2019
    300 pages

    Material
    Lina Wolff (b. 1973) lived and worked in Italy and Spain an interpreter and translator for Swedish Manuscript
    many years before returning to live in Sweden. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, English Sample Transla on (82 pp)
    Synopsis
    she wrote her short story collec on Många människor dör som du. Her first novel, Bret
    Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs was awarded the pres gious Vi Magazine Literature Film & TV Rights
    Prize, the English Pen Transla on Award, as well as the Oxford-Weidenfeld Transla on Rights Available
    Prize for the English edi on. Her last novel, The Polyglot Lovers won the August Prize for
    Fic on in 2016 as well as the Svenska Dagbladet Prize, and has since won the English Pen Contact
    Elisabet Brännström
    Transla on Award in 2019, with rights sold in 19 territories to date.
    elisabet.brannstrom@bonnierrights.se
    bonnierrights.se | info@bonnierrights.se

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