The Devil Book
Asta Olivia Nordenhof
'Nordenhof's writing is electrifying' CHETNA MAROO
‘A comet in Scandinavian literature’ OLGA RAVN
A bold, lyrical and surprising novel about violence and money, love and desire, and a stand-off with the Devil himself
A woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. While she sits out a two-week Covid quarantine in his apartment, she begins to tell her story. Years ago and desperate for money, she sold herself to a stranger called T. He offered her a suitcase full of money and lavish gifts in exchange for total control of her body. In the bed between them lay a large kitchen knife and the promise of an iconic death.
But at the last moment, she aborted the treacherous game and fled. Now in London, she reflects on the forces - financial and social - that led her to the brink of destruction, and wonders what it would take to believe in love again.
Frank, intimate and dazzling entertaining, The Devil Book is a classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story. This unmissable stand-alone novel is the follow up to the critically-acclaimed Money to Burn.
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Reviews for The Devil Book
Financial Times
So beguiling… the book as a whole is...an undeniable success: funny and angry, tender and timely
Skinny
Nordenhof has a sort of literary X factor, cutting her story down to only the most interesting parts. As Scandinavian septologies go, it’s more fun than Jon Fosse’s, more ballsy than Solvej Balle’s. The final section…fumes with fury
Observer
[Readers] will fall in love with Nordenhof’s project purely as text, as properly experimental writing whose moral and artistic purpose are so deeply entwined as to make them inextricable… There is another fire here: a passionate, magnetic commitment to writing as a political act. I will continue to follow this series, wherever it goes
Guardian
So tender and pure that it is very difficult not to be moved
Kritik
Even better than the first
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