Carnality

De: Lina Wolff, Frank Perry - translator

Narrado por: Krys Janae

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 storyteller's 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, Lucia—a 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 truth—not to mention a good story—set in the seemingly unspiritual grimy underbelly of society.

©2019 Lina Wolff; Translation copyright 2022 by Frank Perry (P)2024 Tantor

Not for me

Personally I was kind of disappointed. I expected from the reviews and the description that the book would be a wild read. It was instead very slow paced and reflective. That would be fine, but I didn’t feel like the book provoked much thought or contemplation about morality, carnality, or anything else for that matter. Just not for me.

Very worth the read and thought provoking

While the narration was a little dry and hard to pay attention to this story grabbed my attention at all the right times. It’s like listening to a friend tell a crazy story but they have to do it with the most monotone voice imaginable! Overall a good experience