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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781529934557
Published: October 2026
Imprint: Vintage
Page Extent: 128
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00

The Devil Book

Asta Olivia Nordenhof, Caroline Waight

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A classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story from a Danish literary superstar
'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' GUARDIAN
'A comet in Scandinavian literature' OLGA RAVN
A woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. Free in a new city, she reveals how she once sold herself to a man called T. Desperate for money, she accepted when T offered her lavish gifts and a suitcase full of cash in exchange for total control of her body. But at the last moment, she chose life and fled.
In London, the woman watches the people around her, searching for clues on how to live in the face of betrayal and loss, and what freedom really looks like. Intimate, revelatory and ultimately revolutionary, this is...

About the Author

Asta Olivia Nordenhof

Asta Olivia Nordenhof

Asta Olivia Nordenhof is an award-winning poet and author. Money to Burn, the first book in the Scandinavian Star septology, was first published in Denmark in 2020. It was awarded the PO Enquist Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. An international sensation and translated into eighteen languages, Money to Burn was published in English by Jonathan Cape. The Devil Book is the second in the series and was an instant bestseller upon first publication in Denmark.

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Caroline Waight

Caroline Waight

Caroline Waight is an award-winning literary translator working from Danish, German and Norwegian. Her translations include books by Caroline Albertine Minor, Ingvild Rishøi, Maren Uthaug and Dorthe Nors. She was a finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Award and received a special commendation at the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

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