{"product_id":"many-people-die-like-you-by-lina-wolff","title":"'Many People Die Like You' by Lina Wolff","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"43\" data-end=\"522\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"186\"\u003eMany People Die Like You\u003c\/em\u003e gathers strange, sharp, often darkly funny stories about desire, loneliness, work, sex, power, shame, and the social arrangements people use to make themselves feel less doomed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"43\" data-end=\"522\"\u003eIt has that excellent European short-story mode where everyone seems composed until one sentence later, when you realise the floor has become a mouth. The stories move between offices, relationships, beaches, families, erotic bargains, private humiliations, and moments of surreal moral slippage. Wolff is very good at discomfort without melodrama: her characters often say the wrong thing, want the wrong thing, notice the wrong thing, and then keep walking as though nothing has happened. Translated by Saskia Vogel, this is a neat one for readers of unsettling literary fiction, translated fiction, Ottessa Moshfegh-adjacent grotesquerie, Fleur Jaeggy-ish coolness, and short stories with bite marks rather than tidy morals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1102\" data-end=\"1368\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst English-language edition, first impression paperback published by And Other Stories in 2020, with full number line. Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel. Good second-hand condition, with light edge and cover wear.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45682797641811,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_31.png?v=1780987281","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/many-people-die-like-you-by-lina-wolff","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}