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• Winner of Swedish Radio's Prize for Best Novel 2021

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In 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?

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Hanna Nordenhoek (Malmoe, 1977) has been awarded several major literary honours for her work. Her novel Caesaria (2020) scooped the Swedish Radio's Literary Prize and was also shortlisted for the Vi's Literature Prize. Nordenhoek also works as a translator from the Spanish and has been praised for her translations of Fernanda Melchor, Andrea Abreu and Gloria Gervitz. Her last novel is Wonderland.

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