Lit in Translation

The Devil's Grip

Djävulsgreppet

Lina Wolff (born 1973)

Translated by Saskia Vogel

English editions

In English

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Florence overwhelms the woman who has just arrived there, with its terracotta rooftops, bell towers, couples everywhere and the lover she has come for. She sees herself as a product of a hard, bare landscape and hopes he can thaw what is frozen in her. Afterwards she attempts to reconstruct how it happened and pinpoint where things went wrong. The novel tracks the two of them in body and mind, her grasp on the man and his ever firmer grasp on her, while desire, domination and death open up a pit beyond the ordinary and beyond madness.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
270 pages in the original
Genres
Love (assigned by AI)
Set in
Italy
First published
2022 by Albert Bonniers Förlag
Author's age
49 when first published
ISBN

9789100196493 (original)

9781635424201 (Other Press, United States)