{"product_id":"carnality-9781635420746","title":"Carnality","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this latest novel from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Polyglot Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAwarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man 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 astonishing tale. What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy 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 left thumb. The tale is also the precursor to a meeting between the writer and the infernal miracle worker, Lucia--a meeting that ultimately forces the writer to make a fateful decision about her own inner essence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarnality \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about the universal need for spirituality and truth--not to mention a good story--set in the seemingly unspiritual grimy underbelly of society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLina Wolff\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Lund, Sweden, and lived for several years in Spain and Italy, where she worked as a translator. She arrived on the literary stage in 2009 with the publication of \u003ci\u003eMånga människor dör som du\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of novellas set in Spain and in the south of Sweden. In 2012 her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eBret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e, won the prestigious \u003ci\u003eVi Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Literature Award. In 2016 her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Polyglot Lovers \u003c\/i\u003ewon Sweden's highest literary award, the August Prize for Fiction, and has been translated into seventeen languages. \u003ci\u003eCarnality\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the prestigious Aftonbladet Literature Prize in 2019. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Perry\u003c\/b\u003e's translations of Sweden's leading writers have won prizes from the Swedish Academy and the Writer's Guild of Sweden. His translation of Lina Wolff's \u003ci\u003eBret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e was the 2017 winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was awarded the triennial Bernard Shaw Prize for best literary translation from Swedish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Other Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50607193915666,"sku":"9781635420746","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3b2ba657-4910-4380-8048-a43ae9867818.jpg?v=1732305364","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/carnality-9781635420746","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}