Carnality, Lina Wolff
Carnality, Lina Wolff
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Carnality

Author: Lina Wolff, Frank Perry

Narrator: Krys Janae

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/11/2024


Synopsis

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.

About Lina Wolff

Lina Wolff 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 Many People Die Like You, a collection of short stories set in Spain and in the south of Sweden. In 2012 her debut novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, won the Vi Magazine Literature Prize. Her second novel, The Polyglot Lovers, won Sweden's highest literary award, the August Prize for Fiction, in 2016, and has been translated into seventeen languages. Carnality was awarded the prestigious Aftonbladet Literature Prize in 2019.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on July 16, 2022

This book was recommended in a New York Times newsletter so I was stunned that there were no reviews on Amazon or goodreads. A blank slate! So I read it as quickly as I could so that I could be the first to review it. Then I came back to goodreads only to find that one person has now rated it two st......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on April 21, 2022

This is a weird one and you need to give it a while to get going. I was willing to stick around because the title and the cover had me very curious and it was absolutely worth my while. I love a book that I just cannot compare to any other book. There is a dark humor that underpins this book, a kind......more

Goodreads review by Eric on April 10, 2023

I’ll be generous and round up from 2.5. Wildly overpraised by the NYT. Compelling? Yes. Strong writing? Yes. Strange? Also yes. But not nearly strange enough, and my compulsion to keep reading was very often accompanied by exasperated sighs. Shocking how unsatisfying a book can feel while still bein......more

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey) on July 22, 2022

I read that Swedish writer Lina Wolff atmospherically channels other sui generis narratives, such as Mercè Rodoreda’s Death in Spring, and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, two of my favorite and stand-out books of all time. Her postmodern style is not for everyone, as there is zip on any relation to formula,......more

Goodreads review by Jin on August 22, 2021

Das Lesen dieses Buches war wie eine wilde Fahrt, wo ich von einem Fettnäpfchen ins nächste getapst bin. Von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite konnte ich keine Pause machen. Es war wie als wäre man in ein Kaninchenloch gefallen, immer tiefer und kurioser ging es weiter. Das Buch lebt definitiv von de......more