Carnality

Lina Wolff

Jun 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Krys Janae

About this audiobook

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 the author

Lina Wolff is the author of Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, which won the Vi Magazine Literature Prize; The Polyglot Lovers, which won Sweden's highest literary award, the August Prize for Fiction, in 2016; and Carnality, which was awarded the prestigious Aftonbladet Literature Prize in 2019.

Krys Janae is a native Californian with over three decades in the performing arts (music, dance, theater) and has been a voice-over artist since 2015. A full-time audiobook narrator, Krys also has voiced video games including Poetic Studio's Sacred Fire alongside Doug Cockle (The Witcher).

Frank Perry's translations have won prizes from the Swedish Academy and the Writer's Guild of Sweden. His translation of Lina Wolff's Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs was the 2017 winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was awarded the triennial Bernard Shaw Prize for best literary translation from Swedish.