'A book that you just want to give people and say: take a look at this, read it, experience it. I would have liked to devote 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 tender yet pitiless character descriptions, her distinctive but also natural way of piecing together the novel's disparate parts into a shimmering whole.' - Eva Johansson, Svenska Dagbladet ------- 'As a prose writer, Wolff amazes us once again with the rare ability to draw the reader straight in. There are authors that need to summon all their skill to describe the cafe around the corner. Others have it in their blood, unfair as that may seem.' - Salka Hallstrom Bornold, Expressen ------- 'Lina Wolff's exuberance and narrative zest are exquisite. This is simply good writing.' - Rebecka Ahlund, Boras Tidning ------- 'With linguistic precision Wolff highlights scents, flavours, sights, making the reading experience almost physical. The hot asphalt in Barcelona, the taste of wine or bodily fluids running down a thigh: everything is captured with a palpable sensuality.' - Elin Grelsson, Goteborgs-Posten ------- 'Wolff is reminiscent of Pedro Almodovar, twisting and turning the gender roles, allowing women to shine and gain the upper hand.' - Anneli Jordahl, Sydsvenskan.

Lina Wolff has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Manga manniskor dor som du ('Many People Die Like You'; Albert Bonniers Forlag, 2009). Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, her first novel, was awarded the prestigious Vi Magazine Literature Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 Swedish Radio Award for Best Novel of the Year. She now lives in southern Sweden. Her second novel, De polyglotta alskarna ('The Polyglot Lovers'), is forthcoming from Albert Bonniers Forlag in 2016.