In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers , a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society.
Carnality is a novel about the universal need for spirituality and truth--not to mention a good story--set in the seemingly unspiritual grimy underbelly of society..
The tale is also the precursor to a meeting between the writer and the infernal miracle worker, Lucia--a meeting that ultimately forces the writer to make a fateful decision about her own inner essence.
What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy Internet TV show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the storyteller\'s life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing left thumb.
In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole astonishing tale.
Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell.
In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers , a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society
