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Søstrene Jolly og Peggy vokser op som plejebørn i en landsby i det mørkeste Skåne, hvor et uopklaret dobbeltmord hviler tungt over byen. Peggy drømmer sig væk, til bøgerne og universitetsbyen Lund, mens det bliver Jollys lod at forstå og forklare alle de kontraster, der præger deres...

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.

Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a Marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin.

An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she's fucked her thirty-something teacher. A hose pumping cava through the maquette of a giant penis becomes a murder weapon in the hands of a disaffected housewife.

At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, and 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 Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back.

Schonungslos,schillernd und mit tiefschwarzem Humor schildert Lina Wolff die dämonischen Abgründe einer Beziehung und bringt dabei die Realität ins Wanken. Der Teufelsgriff ist ein Buch für unsere Zeit. Eine Frau entflieht ihrem Alltag und zieht nach Florenz. In der südlichen Stadt wirkt alles fremd und verlockend zugleich, die Ziegeldächer, die Kirchtürme, die Liebespaare, der Mann, den sie kurz nach ihrer Ankunft kennenlernt.