Exquisite Corpse

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Romance is dead

He pulled up his stool and looked me over carefully, lightly touching my skin here and there.
Because, my sweet girl, you are so very beautiful and that beauty deserves to be recorded for the world to see.

Beautiful but impoverished Lina Dahlstrom is dying of tuberculosis and it seems that no one can save her. All hope is lost until an eccentric doctor, Carl Dance, becomes enthralled with Linas charms and vows to do everything in his power to cure her. But when the illness inevitably claims Linas life, Dances obsession with her only grows and so begins a mad and criminal scheme to bring her back from beyond the grave and claim her as his own forever.

Set in Stockholm in 1930 and based on true events, Exquisite Corpse is a story about the madness and horror of a romance that knows no bounds.

A brilliant hammer-swing at the notion that a woman is her most beautiful in death, Periis darkly visceral account of entitlement and deluded obsession is jaw-dropping. Exquisite Corpse is ingenious Australian gothic at its macbre best. Sarah Schmidt, author ofThe Blue HourandSee What I Have Done

Historical fiction for a post #metoo world,Exquisite Corpsegets to the bone-tingling core of why consent matters, and always has. Pip Smith, author of Half Wild

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With unflinching boldness, Pericic moves her readers through an abuse of power so extreme, so grotesque, it is elevated to the level of allegory. Historical fiction for a post #metoo world,Exquisite Corpsegets to the bone-tingling core of why consent matters, and always has. -- Pip Smith, author of Half Wild

Author Bio

Marija Perii is a writer based in Melbourne. Her first novel, The Lost Pages, won The Australian/Vogels Literary Award 2017 and was shortlisted for the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. She was named as a 2018 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist.Exquisite Corpseis her second novel.