Many People Die Like You

In this collection from the winner of Sweden’s August Prize, Lina Wolff gleefully wrenches unpredictability from the suffocations of day-to-day life, shatters balances of power without warning, & strips her characters down to their strangest & most unstable selves"What we do when nobody’s watching & the things that go unsaid in the minds of men & women — these are the obsessions pulsing through Many People Die Like You, a newly translated collection of witty, acerbic short stories by Swedish writer Lina Wolff." — Baya Simons, The Financial TimesAn 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."Encompassing kinky murder, cruel neglect, misery porn, human sacrifice, & miracles, the stories in Lina Wolff’s Many People Die Like You investigate the bondage of identity, the rage of tangled relationships, & the uncompromising cloisters of community ... Wolff explores voyeurism, surveillance, & compliance, how needs & desires entwine beneath powerful gazes, how characters’ sufferings beckon, repel, or even demand complicity." — Brendan Riley, The Los Angeles Review Of BooksWicked, discomfiting, delightful & wry, delivered with the deadly wit for which Wolff is known, Many People Die Like You presents the uneasy spectacle of people in solitude, & probes, with savage honesty, the choices we make when we believe no one is watching ... or when we no longer care.°°° SASKIA VOGEL was born & raised in Los Angeles & now lives in its sister city, Berlin, where she works as a writer & Swedish-to-English literary translator. From Europe with something like Love An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbours makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that shes 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. In this collection from the winner of Swedens August Prize, Lina Wolff gleefully wrenches unpredictability from the suffocations of day-to-day life, shatters balances of power without warning, and strips her characters down to their strangest and most unstable selves. Wicked, discomfiting, delightful and wry, delivered with the deadly wit for which Wolff is known, Many People Die Like You presents the uneasy spectacle of people in solitude, and probes, with savage honesty, the choices we make when we believe no one is watching or when we no longer care. 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 had sex with 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. In this collection from the winner of Sweden's August Prize, Lina Wolff gleefully wrenches unpredictability from the suffocations of day-to-day life, shatters balances of power without warning, and strips her characters down to their strangest and most unstable selves. Wicked, discomfiting, delightful and wry, delivered with the deadly wit for which Wolff is known, Many People Die Like You presents the uneasy spectacle of people in solitude, and probes, with savage honesty, the choices we make when we believe no one is watching ... or when we no longer care. -- Provided by publisher

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.

In this collection from the winner of Sweden’s August Prize, Lina Wolff gleefully wrenches unpredictability from the suffocations of day-to-day life, shatters balances of power without warning, and strips her characters down to their strangest and most unstable selves. Wicked, discomfiting, delightful and wry, delivered with the deadly wit for which Wolff is known, Many People Die Like You presents the uneasy spectacle of people in solitude, and probes, with savage honesty, the choices we make when we believe no one is watching ... or when we no longer care.

Set in Spain and Sweden, twelve dark and funny short stories of characters who range from messy to outright deviant.