The Devils Grip, Lina Wolff
The Devils Grip, Lina Wolff
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The Devil's Grip

Author: Lina Wolff, Saskia Vogel

Narrator: Daniela Acitelli

Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/02/2024


Synopsis

Wickedly dark with a mystical edge, this story of an Italian love affair gone bad captures the irresistible pull of toxic relationships—from the acclaimed author of Carnality.

A woman arrives in Florence, overwhelmed by the strange, warm city so different from her home. Amidst the Renaissance architecture and amorous couples, she finds an unexpected love of her own. With his dark, ugly looks, people might stop and stare, wondering what someone like her was doing with someone like him. But he's the Mickey to her Minnie, and she can fix him—they can fix each other. She feels bound to him, body and soul.

It's not long before the lying starts. Other women have begun to notice him, and she spirals into paranoia. Soon they're both cheating and lashing out, and she becomes more and more convinced he's not merely a violent man: there's a demon inside him, and inside her too. Their grip on each other is so strong, it might be impossible to break, even after she puts an ocean between them, following another man to New Orleans.

Heady, unsettling, and shockingly funny, The Devil's Grip takes us on a breathless journey with the shadow selves we can't escape.

About Lina Wolff

Lina Wolff was born in Lund, Sweden, and lived for several years in Spain and Italy, where she worked as a translator. She arrived on the literary stage in 2009 with the publication of Many People Die Like You, a collection of short stories set in Spain and in the south of Sweden. In 2012 her debut novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, won the Vi Magazine Literature Prize. Her second novel, The Polyglot Lovers, won Sweden's highest literary award, the August Prize for Fiction, in 2016, and has been translated into seventeen languages. Carnality was awarded the prestigious Aftonbladet Literature Prize in 2019.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karenina on August 07, 2022

Minnie (som i Mimmi Pigg) är protagonisten som berättar den här historien inifrån en bur – själva djävulsgreppet. Ibland ser jag en vit liten laboratoriemus framför mig som kämpar desperat för att ta sig ut innan elden slickar hennes svans. Vi följer hennes jakt på nyckeln. Lina Wolff tycks likt Stei......more

Goodreads review by John on October 23, 2022

This is one of the most unusual books I’ve ever read. It is so unusual that I not only find it nearly impossible to categorise it (is it a psycho-thriller? a love story? a horror story?), I’m not even sure if I can honestly say whether I really liked it or not. But I can repeat my first sentence. It......more

Goodreads review by Bianka on September 07, 2022

Definitely left the impression of a nightmarish horror movie playing in broad daylight. The main character, shifting between a passive and an active state, gives the impression of being able to learn just to disappoint you the next page which heats up the already tense atmosphere and tempo even more......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 04, 2022

Djävulsgreppet är tredje romanen jag läser av Lina Wolff och mina förväntningar var skyhöga. Både De polyglotta älskarna och Köttets tid har jag bokstavligt slukat i mig varend ord och älskat. Men. Djävulsgreppet var annorlunda. Första halvan av boken ville jag stryka under så många citat och pränta......more