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Carnality
Carnality: A Novel | Lina Wolff
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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 storytellers 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, Luciaa 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 truthnot to mention a good storyset in the seemingly unspiritual grimy underbelly of society.
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Suet624
Suet624
Carnality: A Novel | Lina Wolff
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Mehso-so

I‘m not sure why I requested this book from the library or who might have recommended it. It‘s a wild story - a bit like an old episode of a Rod Serling tv show. The story involves an underground internet program in which philanderers (in this particular case) are punished and a nun is part of the morality squad. I have no idea how to describe the book and I wouldn‘t necessarily recommend it but it was interesting while I was in the midst of it.

sarahbarnes So funny - I have seen this book on the shelf of a few bookstores in the past year and the cover keeps catching my eye. I haven‘t read it or bought it but good to know your take on it. 3mo
Suet624 If you can find it at the library I'd love to see what you got out of it. It was a compulsive read. But pretty trippy. I wouldn't run out and buy it though. 3mo
sarahbarnes I‘ll see if my library has it. 3mo
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Suet624
Suet624
Carnality: A Novel | Lina Wolff
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I can think of a few folks who fit this definition. 😤

TrishB Definitely. 3mo
Jeg Me too. 3mo
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Pinta
Pinta
Carnality: A Novel | Lina Wolff
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^^ Characters rotting, distanced, broken, but called to moments of ecstatic beauty.

P. 73 > Media & circus: “There‘s no telling exactly why but there are some people it just feels so incredibly rewarding to hate […] it feels like these people are a magnet drawing all the hatred out of you […] it felt so good, so satisfying, to lie on the sofa and feel hate, to hate with all you‘ve got…”

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Pinta
Pinta
Carnality: A Novel | Lina Wolff
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Pickpick

Why do I even like this? A fascination, a spell. Detachment & a certain empty cruelty with moments of intense presence & passion. Narrative tricks I can‘t quite understand—how she keeps the narrative so fascinating & addictive yet so repulsive. Through the distancing? Care=selfish act. Nietzsche in the mix. Age, technology, revenge, morality, passivity/impulse, desperation, strangers in intense relationships. Gorgeous translation. Trans. 2022.

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