Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs

‘A book that you just want to give people and say: take a look at this, read it, experience it. I would have liked to devote the entire review to quoting sentences and paragraphs from the novel – it is almost as if that were the only way of adequately conveying the gravity, depth and lightness of Lina Wolff's prose, her tender yet pitiless character descriptions, her distinctive but also natural way of piecing together the novel's disparate parts into a shimmering whole.’

-- Eva Johansson * Svenska Dagbladet *

‘As a prose writer, Wolff amazes us once again with the rare ability to draw the reader straight in. There are authors that need to summon all their skill to describe the café around the corner. Others have it in their blood, unfair as that may seem.’

-- Salka Hallström Bornold * Expressen *

‘Lina Wolff's exuberance and narrative zest are exquisite. This is simply good writing.’

-- Rebecka Åhlund * Borås Tidning *

‘With linguistic precision Wolff highlights scents, flavours, sights, making the reading experience almost physical. The hot asphalt in Barcelona, the taste of wine or bodily fluids running down a thigh: everything is captured with a palpable sensuality.’

-- Elin Grelsson * Göteborgs-Posten *

‘Wolff is reminiscent of Pedro Almodóvar, twisting and turning the gender roles, allowing women to shine and gain the upper hand.’

-- Anneli Jordahl * Sydsvenskan *

‘Wolff’s prose has a quality of “otherness” entirely in keeping with the surreal atmosphere of the novel. This strange, provocative debut sits well alongside the work of Roxane Gay, Katherine Angel, Maggie Nelson, Zoe Pilger and Miranda July . . . a cool, clever and fierce addition to the canon of modern feminist literature.’

-- Sarah Perry * The Guardian *

‘[A] filmic offering . . . channelling the spirit of Pedro Almodóvar. A thoroughly invigorating novel.’ re

-- Lucy Scholes * The Independent *

‘Oddly compelling . . . a European postmodern novel steeped in alienation and ennui.’

* Library Journal *

‘The author demonstrates a marvelous command of language and creates characters with real depth, lending the book a sensual vibe and an acerbic wit that force its emotional truths to rise above the grunge of its hard-boiled setting. A poetic, unsentimental drama that offers a meditation on love in all its disparate forms.’

* Kirkus Review *

‘Wolff has had enough of the big swinging dicks of masculine literature. [Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs is] clever and challenging and distinctive.’

-- Galen O'Hanlon * The Skinny *

‘Wolff manoeuvres with great skill through her breathtaking multitude of worlds and an equally impressive cast of characters. Bret Easton Ellis . . . takes the reader on a roller-coaster from the tragic to the comical, with hints of the mysterious and magical scattered in between – it is a testimonial of a dead person remarkably full of life.’

* The Bookbag, January Book of the Mon