Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs

Lina Wolff

Original title: Bret Easton Ellis och de andra hundarna
Publisher: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2012
Genre: Novel
Pages: 285 pages

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At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Cambó, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back.

Mordantly funny, dryly sensual, written with a staggering lightness of touch, the debut novel in English by Swedish sensation Lina Wolff is a black and Bolaño-esque take on the limitations of love in a dog-eat-dog world.

Foreign rights

English (World English): And Other Stories
French: Gallimard
German: Hoffmann & Campe

Awards

Vi:s Literature Prize 2012

Lina Wolff

Lina Wolff was born in Lund, Sweden, and lived for several years in Spain and Italy, where she worked as a translator. She arrived on the literary stage in 2009 with the publication of Many People Die Like You, a collection of short stories set in Spain and the south of Sweden. In 2012, her debut novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, won the Vi Magazine Literature Prize. In 2016, her second novel, The Polyglot Lovers, won Sweden’s most esteemed literary award, the August Prize for Fiction, and has been translated into seventeen languages. Carnalitywas awarded the prestigious Aftonbladet Literature Prize in 2019.