Contributions by Emma Olsson
TRANSLATED EXTRACT
from The Bleed by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck
What does it mean to feel something for real? In Lyra Ekström Lindbäck’s latest novel, several voices interrogate this question side by side, probing fiction, reality, and what exists in between.
Translated by Emma Olsson.
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