- August Prize 2016 · Winner
The Polyglot Lovers
De polyglotta älskarna
Lina Wolff (born 1973)
Translated by Saskia Vogel
English editions
In EnglishThe Polyglot Lovers
And Other Stories · United Kingdom · 2 May 2019 · Paperback · 256 pages
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Three narratives interlock. Max Lamas, an author, wants a woman who can talk with him in every language he knows, a quest that leads him to Italy and a marchesa facing ruin. Ellinor, thirty-six, from a small place in Skåne, advertises for a man who is gentle, though not excessively so. And Lucrezia sees her grandmother fade away in a near-empty ancestral palace. Through all three run the way men look at women, seduction and degradation, and the hope of being understood.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 291 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Sweden, Italy
- First published
- 2016 by Albert Bonniers Förlag
- Author's age
- 43 when first published
- ISBN
9789100156626 (original)
9781911508441 (And Other Stories, United Kingdom)
- More
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