Carnality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781635420746)

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.

Author: Lina Wolff
ISBN-10: 1635420741
ISBN-13: 9781635420746
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2022
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/02/2022
Shelf Awareness 08/27/2022