Reviews

• “Oddly compelling /…/ a European postmodern novel steeped in alienation and ennui.”

• “The author demonstrates a marvellous command of language and creates characters with real depth, lending the book a sensual vibe and an acerbic wit that force its emotional truths to rise above the grunge of its hard-boiled setting. A poetic, unsentimental drama that offers a meditation on love in all its disparate forms.”

• “Wolff’s prose has a quality of “otherness” entirely in keeping with the surreal atmosphere of the novel. This strange, provocative debut sits well alongside the work of Roxane Gay, Katherine Angel, Maggie Nelson, Zoe Pilger and Miranda July /…/ a cool, clever and fierce addition to the canon of modern feminist literature.”

• “A filmic offering /…/ channelling the spirit of Pedro Almodóvar. A thoroughly invigorating novel.”

• “Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, a debut novel that has already turned Sweden’s Lina Wolff into a literary sensation. ”

• “Exciting, dark and grotesque…about domination, romance, perversion and power…A funny novel, teeming, always unexpected and at times gorgeous in its melancholy. ”

• “The novel reads like a satirical production of David Lynch and Luis Bunuel. ”

• “Singular and whimsical characters who capture the grotesque of this world. ”

• “I would have liked to have devoted the entire review to quoting sentences and paragraphs from the novel – it is almost as if that were the only way of adequately conveying the gravity, depth and lightness of Lina Wolff’s prose /…/ her distinctive but also natural way of piecing together the novel’s disparate parts into a shimmering whole. ”