{"product_id":"caesaria","title":"Caesaria","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Hanna Nordenhoek\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Saskia Vogel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"comp-kvqleo6z\" class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo6z wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"comp-kvqleo711\" class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eWinner of the Swedish Radio’s Prize 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\"A novel as beautiful as it is unsettling. Hanna Nordenhök’s prose combines with singular mastery the density of poetry with the feverish atmosphere of a gothic tale\u003c\/em\u003e.\" \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eFernanda Melchor, author of \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eHurricane Season \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eParadis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\"I was astounded by Caesaria. It's such a captivating immersive read, like falling down a rabbit hole of shifting impressions, small revelations and the unravelling of time itself. I've never read anything quite like this. Every sentence is a poem. The language is both furious and careful. The characters are grotesque and gorgeous. It's a hall of mirrors bound up in a book.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eJan Carson, author of \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eThe Raptures\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eQuickly, While They Still Have Horses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eNordenhök's locked up mansion is a disciplinary system of supervision and punishment, a claustrophobic spectacle where death and disaster are indisputable components in the condition of being a girl. Caesaria is simply wonderful!\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eJohanne Lykke Holm, author of \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eStrega\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003eIn 19th-century Sweden, Caesaria is kept in a doctor's mansion as a trophy: she is the first baby to be born alive from one of his c-sections. In a Gothic ambiance, Caesaria narrates in first person her experiences in the mansion and her encounters with its mysterious inhabitants and visitors. Does she know where she comes from? Where is her mother? Is there a world beyond these walls?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003eHanna Nordenhök masterfully blends the elements of storytelling with the history of gynecology, bringing to life the story of Caesaria.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eHanna Nordenhök\u003c\/span\u003e (Malmö, 1977) has been awarded several major literary honors for her work, both as novelist, poet and essayist. Her novel \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eCaesaria \u003c\/em\u003e(2020) scooped Swedish Radio’s Literary Prize and was shortlisted for Vi’s Literature Prize. Nordenhök also works as atranslator from the Spanish and has been praised for her translations of Fernanda Melchor, Andrea Abreu and Alia Trabucco Zerán. Her last novel \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eWonderland \u003c\/em\u003e(2023) was listed among the Best Books of the Year in Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Expressen, Borås Tidning, Hufvudstadsbladet and Magasinet ETC, as well as shortlisted for Vi's Literature Prize.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eSaskia Vogel\u003c\/span\u003e is a writer and translator of over two-dozen Swedish language books. Her novel Permission was published in five languages. She is a recipient the Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature, the Bernard Shaw Prize, two English PEN Translates Awards, and was a PEN America Translation Prize finalist. She was Princeton’s Fall 2022 Translator in Residence. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she lives in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50783771033934,"sku":"","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/g19plb48.png?v=1735481298","url":"https:\/\/eastbristolbooks.live\/products\/caesaria","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}