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by Karin Smirnoff (Author), Anna Paterson (Translator)
"This year's best novel... Brutal, colourful, carnal... Impossible to put down." --Expressen
A Swedish publishing phenomenon: a literary noir of extraordinary power follows the discovery of a young woman's body in the long grass behind the sawmill...
Author Biography
Karin Smirnoff lives in Hertsånger, Sweden. She worked as a journalist before quitting her job to buy a wood factory. After a couple of years, she wrote her debut novel, My Brother, which was discovered on the slush pile. It became a critically acclaimed bestseller and has since been shortlisted for the prestigious August Prize, translated into eleven languages, and optioned for TV by the producers behind The Bridge.
Dr Anna Paterson used to work as a neuroscientist and is now a writer and an award-winning translator from Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and German into English. Her own recent writing has focused on the relationship between literature and environmental issues.
Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.85 x 7.76 x 5.15 IN
Publication Date: September 27, 2022
