# The Polyglot Lovers

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- Authors: [Lina Wolff](https://www.bookquiver.com/lina-wolff)
- Publisher: And Other Stories
- ISBN: 978-19-1150-844-1
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2019-05-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Winner of the 2016 August Prize‘Do you have to stare like that?’ I asked.‘Think about the actors in porn. They’ve got no problem showing themselves off.’‘Think about when I broke your nose,’ I replied. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded by a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him—in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin. At the heart of this literary intrigue is a handwritten manuscript that leaves no one unaffected. The Polyglot Lovers is a fiercely witty and nuanced contribution to feminism in the #metoo era. Pleasure is an elusive thing, love even more so.