The Corpses We Planted
$31.20
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2027
Summary
Gleefully sacrilegious, brilliantly disturbing - a mordant and bloody tale of rural unease and female revenge
‘It has been said of our village that there are perverts and paedophiles lurking behind every bush. Whatever the truth of that claim, you would have to admit that we turned out rather well.’
Jolly and Peggy were toddlers when their parents died in a car crash. They were brought by a distant relative to a remote village in southern Sweden and given to strangers to raise…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241841297 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241841291 |
| Author: | Lina Wolff, Frank Perry |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2027 |
| Weight: | 271g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 135mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
Furiously entertaining and ingenious, Lina Wolff elicits laughter from the depths of despair – August Prize committee 2025
It has been a long time since I read something so eloquent, playful and heart-wrenching … The Corpses We Planted is a story that one doesn’t come across very often. It is tender and cruel, light and dark, burlesque and agonizing * Upsala Nya Tidning *
Lina Wolff
Lina Wolff is the author of five novels and one collection of short fiction. Her most recent novel, The Corpses We Planted, won the August Prize, Sweden’s highest literary honour, making Wolff only the third writer in history to receive that award twice. Her work has won many other awards, including the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Aftonbladet Literature Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize, and has been translated into seventeen languages. In 2026 she was awarded a Swedish Royal Medal (Litteris et Artibus) for her contributions to literature.
Lina Wolff is also a literary translator and has translated the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Samanta Schweblin, Cesar Aira and others. She was born and grew up in southern Sweden.
Frank Perry has translated many of Sweden’s leading writers, across fiction, poetry, and drama. His work has been awarded prizes by the Swedish Academy and the Writers Guild of Sweden. His translation of Lina Wolff’s first novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize as well as the triennial George Bernard Shaw Prize for best literary translation from Swedish.
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