Audiobooks by Lina Wolff

"«Grandios, wie es Lina Wolff gelingt, ihre Leser:innen zu hypnotisieren, sie in dieses teuflisch konstruierte Beziehungslabyrinth hineinzuziehen.» Le Monde «Lina Wolff gehört in den Kanon zeitgenössischer feministischer Literatur und ergänzt ihn auf coole, intelligente und streitbare Weise.» The Guardian Schonungslos,schillernd und mit tiefschwarzem Humor schildert Lina Wolff die dämonischen Abgründe einer Beziehung und bringt dabei die Realität ins Wanken. Der Teufelsgriff ist ein Buch für unsere Zeit. Eine Frau entflieht ihrem Alltag und zieht nach Florenz. In der südlichen Stadt wirkt alles fremd und verlockend zugleich, die Ziegeldächer, die Kirchtürme, die Liebespaare, der Mann, den sie kurz nach ihrer Ankunft kennenlernt. Sie denkt, dass sie selbst aus einer kargen Gegend kommt, dass sie viel zu lernen hat und dass er derjenige sein könnte, der den gefrorenen Boden in ihr auftaut. Im Gegenzug hat auch sie ihm etwas beizubringen. Der Roman ist die Geschichte der beiden, ihrer Körper und ihrer Seelen. Über ihren Griff nach ihm und seinen immer festeren Griff nach ihr. Den Teufelsgriff."

Lina Wolff (Author), Sandra Busch (Narrator)

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Carnality

"In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society. Awarded 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. Carnality is 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."

Lina Wolff (Author), Krys Janae (Narrator)

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Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs

"At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, and Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back. Mordantly funny, dryly sensual, written with a staggering lightness of touch, the debut novel in English by Swedish sensation Lina Wolff is a black and Bolaño-esque take on the limitations of love in a dog-eat-dog world. Perfect for fans of Cho Nam-Joo's ´Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982´. What people are saying about ´Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs´: '[A] filmic offering . . . channelling the spirit of Pedro Almodóvar. A thoroughly invigorating novel.' - Lucy Scholes, The Independent 'Wolff has had enough of the big swinging dicks of masculine literature. [Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs is] clever and challenging and distinctive.' - Galen O'Hanlon, The Skinny 'Oddly compelling . . . a European postmodern novel steeped in alienation and ennui.' - Library Journal 'Wolff's prose has a quality of 'otherness' entirely in keeping with the surreal atmosphere of the novel. This strange, provocative debut sits well alongside the work of Roxane Gay, Katherine Angel, Maggie Nelson, Zoe Pilger and Miranda July . . . a cool, clever and fierce addition to the canon of modern feminist literature.' - Sarah Perry, The Guardian 'The author demonstrates a marvellous command of language and creates characters with real depth, lending the book a sensual vibe and an acerbic wit that force its emotional truths to rise above the grunge of its hard-boiled setting. A poetic, unsentimental drama that offers a meditation on love in all its disparate forms.' - Kirkus Reviews 'Wolff manoeuvres with great skill through her breathtaking multitude of worlds and an equally impressive cast of characters. Bret Easton Ellis . . . takes the reader on a roller-coaster from the tragic to the comical, with hints of the mysterious and magical scattered in between - it is a testimonial of a dead person remarkably full of life.' - The Bookbag, 5 Stars, January Book of the Month 'A book that you just want to give people and say: take a look at this, read it, experience it. I would have liked to devote the entire review to quoting sentences and paragraphs from the novel - it is almost as if that were the only way of adequately conveying the gravity, depth and lightness of Lina Wolff's prose, her tender yet pitiless character descriptions, her distinctive but also natural way of piecing together the novel's disparate parts into a shimmering whole.' - Eva Johansson, Svenska Dagbladet - Lina Wolff (1973- ) is a Swedish author. Having lived in Spain and Italy for several years working as a translator, Wolff arrived on the literary stage in 2009 with ´Många människor dör som du´ (´Many People Die Like You) and won the prestigious Vi Magazine Literature Prize in 2012 for her debut novel, ´Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs´. She has since won several other literary awards, including the August Prize for Fiction and the Aftonbladet Literature Prize."

Lina Wolff (Author), Kristin Atherton (Narrator)

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Many People Die Like You

"An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she's fucked her thirty-something teacher. A hose pumping cava through the maquette of a giant penis becomes a murder weapon in the hands of a disaffected housewife. In this collection from the winner of Sweden's August Prize, Lina Wolff gleefully wrenches unpredictability from the suffocations of day-to-day life, shatters balances of power without warning, and strips her characters down to their strangest and most unstable selves. Wicked, discomfiting, delightful and wry, delivered with the deadly wit for which Wolff is known, ´Many People Die Like You´ presents the uneasy spectacle of people in solitude, and probes, with savage honesty, the choices we make when we believe no one is watching... or when we no longer care. Perfect for fans of 'Austerlitz' by W.G. Sebald and 'The Months' by Javier Marías. What people are saying about ´Many People Die Like You´: 'Fantastic. Quiet, thoughtful and, in spite of all the suffering, very funny.' - Vi magazine 'Several of the stories are so funny that you'd probably bring joy to your neighbours if you read them aloud.' - Skånska Dagbladet 'An immediate success for Lina Wolff... Many People Die Like You is a more than promising debut. Lina Wolff is a skilled stylist and a good storyteller.' - Arbetarbladet '´Many People Die Like You´ is full of life in motion. Depicted with such certainty that even the narrator's voice must at times give way to the swelling language. And so, Lina Wolff has arrived as one of the important voices in Swedish literature. Not least because of the freedom the texts create for themselves. A freedom full of pleasure and humor alongside ever-present earnestness.' - Helsingborgs Dagblad 'Lina Wolff either quickly visits people who are happening to have a good, perhaps heightened conversation. Or, she tells a story with a beginning and end. Two approaches to the short story, here both are equally exciting to read.' - Kulturnytt, Radio SR P1 'It's a matter of course of Lina Wolff's way of writing, as though each formulation and twist has been there all along, just waiting to be written down by her. Perhaps it is a matter of self-esteem, combined with a drive that draws you instantly and relentlessly into her stories. / ... / Wolff creates a hypnotic pull around her characters, making the reader wish they could remain in the story, how crass and chewy the lives portrayed can seem. The main characters are as often men as they are women, and Wolff writes with equal ease from a female and a male perspective. Human as humans are: sad and comical, petty and grand.' - Svenska Dagbladet 'Wolff's brilliant language, twisted intrigue and black humor makes this debut the best I've read this year.' - Femina magazine - Lina Wolff (1973- ) is a Swedish author. Having lived in Spain and Italy for several years working as a translator, Wolff arrived on the literary stage in 2009 with ´Många människor dör som du´ (´Many People Die Like You) and won the prestigious Vi Magazine Literature Prize in 2012 for her debut novel, ´Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs´. She has since won several other literary awards, including the August Prize for Fiction and the Aftonbladet Literature Prize."

Lina Wolff (Author), Montserrat Lombard (Narrator)

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The Polyglot Lovers

"'A singular novel, sometimes brutal, certainly merciless.' - Le Figaro (France) Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a Marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin. At the heart of this literary intrigue is a handwritten manuscript that leaves no one unaffected. The Polyglot Lovers is a fiercely witty and nuanced contribution to feminism in the #metoo era. Pleasure is an elusive thing, love even more so. - Lina Wolff was born in Lund, Sweden, and lived for several years in Spain and Italy, where she worked as a translator. In 2012 her debut novel,'Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs', won the prestigious Vi Magazine's Literature Award. In 2016 her novel 'The Polyglot Lovers' won Sweden's highest literary award, the August Prize for Fiction, and has been translated into seventeen languages. 'Carnality' was awarded the prestigious Aftonbladet Literature Prize in 2019."

Lina Wolff (Author), Sofia Engstrand (Narrator)

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