Wild Boar
Hannah Lutz author Andy Turner translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The Emma Press
Published:24th Apr '25
Should be back in stock very soon
Winner | English PEN Award 2025 & Best Debut Novel Award, Society of Swedish Authors 2018, Finland
A compelling and poetic debut from Finnish-Swedish author Hannah Lutz about animals and people - and their capacities to grow and to destroy.
To witness. To contain. To hunt.
People in Småland are being provoked into action by a destructive species. It moves in packs at night. Gardens are being destroyed, farmland churned up. Yet its illusiveness draws in both visitors and inhabitants.
The forests of this stony province are home to a growing population of wild boar once on the verge of extinction. Told by three people newly arrived in an isolated community, Wild Boar is a compelling and poetic debut from Finnish/Swedish author Hannah Lutz about animals and people, their places in a changing ecosystem, and their capacities to grow and to destroy.
‘Hannah Lutz’s novel is an allegory of humanity’s plight in the age of impending climate catastrophe.’
* Sydsvenskan *‘In this thin little book, every page bursts with the paradoxes that surround man and nature today’
* Expressen (Sweden) *'Hypnotic, spare and poetic, this little award-winning book transports us to the forests of Sweden where wild boar are once again thriving. Three people are invested in their presence, and through the short chapters we witness how humans, wild creatures and nature interact - for good and bad. A beautifully achieved and tenderly translated treat.'
-- Kerry Fowler * Sainsbury's Magazi- Winner of PEN Translates Award 2025 (UK)
- Winner of Best Debut Novel Award, Society of Swedish Authors 2018
ISBN: 9781915628381
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 8mm
Weight: unknown
102 pages