The Wax Child - Olga Ravn

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZEIn seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who has come to them in the form of a tall headless man who gives them dark powers: they can steal people's happiness, they have performed unchristian acts, and they can cause pestilence or death. They are all in danger... Zobrazit více