The Wax Child: LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

'The Wax Child proves Olga Ravn’s ahead of the game.She's the strangest - and best - young novelist in Europe' Telegraph, The Greatest Books of 2025'Something truly special.A wonderfully weird novel full of lines that will rattle around in your brain' Sunday Times, Best Books of 2025'An incantation that explores womanhood, motherhood and bodily autonomy.Martin Aitken’s mesmerising, exquisitely precise translation is, literally, breathtaking.' Irish Times, Books of the YearIt was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human.For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life.She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet - it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper.It sees how, in the candlelight, she gazes with love at her friends, and hears the things they say