The Dolls

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The Dolls takes you into a world that feels both eerily strange and painfully familiar, where isolation, ruin, and prejudice intertwine with the struggles of displaced families desperate to find belonging. Through four haunting stories, characters grapple with mysterious illnesses, human-made disasters, and environmental decay.

A haunting exploration of fractured families and uncertain truths in a surreal, unsettling world.

In The Dolls, Ursula Scavenius weaves together four gripping tales that explore the lives of siblings caught in unsettling circumstances. One sister retreats into the family basement, another rejects her younger brother, while a third, suffering from memory loss, is on the run and seeks refuge at Notpla. Meanwhile, a different set of siblings journeys to Hungary, carrying their deceased mother in a coffin, each holding their own version of her story.

The book draws inspiration from literary and artistic figures like August Strindberg, Franz Kafka, Andrej Kurkov, Knut Hamsun, T. S. Eliot, Bela Tarr, and Hieronymus Bosch, creating a chilling yet irresistibly captivating universe. In this world, truth becomes elusive, and propaganda blurs reality, leaving readers questioning what can truly be believed.

Translated from Danish by Jennifer Russell, The Dolls offers a powerful, atmospheric experience that lingers long after the final page.

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