**Winner of the Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted: Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year – Goldsmiths Prize – Betty Trask PrizeLonglisted: Booker Prize – Dylan Thomas PrizeMaps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie Mortimer’s debut is a symphonic journey through one woman’s body: a celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all.‘Original, ...

Mappe dei nostri corpi spettacolari è la storia di un essere inafferrabile che, lento e inesorabile, si aggira in un paesaggio affascinante: il corpo umano. Si ferma al suo interno, ne esplora gli organi, si moltiplica tra le cellule. Una creatura che racconta la topografia di un corpo, da cui assorbe energia vitale tappa dopo tappa; avanza lungo gli argini delle sue vene, si riversa nei tessuti, scivola nelle anse dei capillari. Sfiora la trachea come i tasti di uno xilofono. Si diffonde ...

**Longlisted for the Booker PrizeWinner of the Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the YearShortlisted for the Goldsmiths PrizeLonglisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize'Original, memorable, shimmering' - Sarah Moss**'Restlessly inventive . . . delicate and persuasive' - The GuardianSomething gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia’s body, learning her life from the inside out...

Kort over kroppens landskab er en både brutal og håbefuld fortælling om det, vi gør med livet, når vores fremtid tages fra os. Om det at være syg og skulle forlade livet, og det at være pårørende og skulle leve videre.Lia bærer sin fortid i sin krop. Dens erfaringer og relationer ligger forstenet i hende, afskåret fra det liv, hun lever. Men da noget ondsindet indtager hendes krop, begynder fortiden at sive ud i nutiden.Sammen med sin mand, Harry, og datter, Iris, har Lia skabt den harmoni...

**A Jen Hatmaker Book Club Pick · Named a Best Book of 2022 by Time, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street JournalLonglisted for the Booker Prize · Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize · Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize · Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize · Shortlisted for the Sunday Times PrizeThis lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman...