This week we are featuring books published by Lolli Editions, who are bringing some exciting fiction into English.

Recommended, and in stock now: 

The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn (translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken). A profound and beautifully written investigation into sentience and into what it means to be human. 
>>Read Thomas's review.
>>Read Stella's review. 
>>Reading with the mouth. 
>>Find out more. 

Sevastopol by Emilio Fraia (translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry). Three connected stories stories of yearning and loss, obsession and madness, failure and the desire to persist.

>>Propped up by structures that could collapse at any moment. 

>>Read an extract. 

>>In a sleepy, blue, sort of phosphorescent way. 

After the Sun by Jonas Eika (translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg). Short stories set in the margins of a globalised world that is both saturated with yearning and brutally transactional.

>>Sun economy.

>>'Alvin'.

>>'Me, Rory and Aurora'.

The Dolls by Ursula Scavenius (translated from the Danish by Jennifer Russell). Four beautifully and sparely written stories featuring characters beset by disorienting and unfathomable losses in situations that conflate the familiar and the strange. 

>>'Compartment.'
>>In a choked state of mind. 

Adorable by Ida Marie Hede (translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg). "Adorable pulls us between wanting to live and having to die, between child found and parent lost, feeling from inside Hede's brain-womb all that hide and seek within the concaves of living rooms, telephone calls, and other skins." —Mara Coson
>>"Death is the mindfuck of existence."

>>Read an extract. 

>>"Reading parochially would be too much to bear."
>>"Different languages open up different things in the mind."

>>Accidents of migration and biography. 

>>On designing the books for Lolli Editions. 
>>The Lolli catalogue.