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A distinctly poetic and disturbingly elegant horror novel for fans of Midsommar and The Witch. Husband and wife Bohumil and Bohumila, together with their son, move from Prague to a remote village with the hopes of salvaging their marriage. In the searing summer heat, they try to fit in with the villagers, only to be met with hostile stares and evasive lies. Each night, the couple hears what they suspect to be a large animal wandering around their cottage--an impression that oddly corresponds to the mysterious flyers found at the local watering hole regarding a wolfen fairytale. As inexplicable coincidences begin piling up, it's clear something sinister is afoot. After a drunken night out, Bohumil and Bohumila come home to find the house empty: their son is gone. After three days of searching, they find the villagers in festive costumes gathered outside their cottage. Is it a bizarre game, or some perverse, folkloric ritual? Are Bohumil and Bohumila in danger? And what has happened to their son? A dark social tale that slides inexorably towards psychological horror, Playing Wolf is a modern ballad of human destiny and discovering the animal in each of us.

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Zuzana Rihova studied Czech language and literature and comparative literature at the Charles University in Prague. She has been working at the Institute of Czech Literature since 2007 and was head of Czech Studies at the University of Oxford from 2014-2017. Rihova, who has a lifelong interest in Czech avant-garde literature, has published a collection of poetry, I'll Let You in My House (Pustim si te do domu, 2016), and a novella, Little Eve (Evicka, 2018), which was named as one of the Books of the Year in 2018 by a Czech literary web magazine. Alex Raby is a Hoosier-born, NYC-based actor and narrator. A former library munchkin, her love for immersive stories took her into the world of theater and onto an MFA in acting at UC Irvine, where she trained extensively in Fitzmaurice Voicework and Knight-Thompson Speechwork while playing an assortment of doctors, maids, and warrior queens. Due to a childhood spent wrangling younger brothers, Alex thrives at whip-smart and feisty characters amidst the worlds of rom-coms, fantasy, and historical fiction, and loves telling stories about women in STEM. Off the page, Alex loves teaching herself Polish, wandering the international grocery stores of NYC, and counting all the pugs she sees while strolling through her neighborhood. Alex Zucker's translations include novels by Magdalena Platzova, Jachym Topol, Bianca Bellova, Petra Hulova, and Tomas Zmeskal. He has also Englished plays, subtitles, young adult and children's books, poems, philosophy, art history, and an opera.

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