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Sweetlust

Stories

by Asja Bakić

Narrator Katherine Littrell

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Translator Jennifer Zoble

Length 5 hours 5 minutes

Language English

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Summary
About the author
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In a dystopian world with no men, women are “rehabilitated” at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of The Sorrows of Young Werther refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte. Asja Baki? deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation. As she did in her acclaimed debut Mars, Baki? once again upends her characters’ convictions and identities—and infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and off-kilter eroticism. Visceral and otherworldly, Sweetlust takes apart human desire and fragility, repeatedly framing pleasure as both inviting and perilous.

Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories

Asja Bakić is a Bosnian author of poetry and prose as well as a translator. She was selected as one of Literary Europe Live’s New Voices from Europe 2017, and her writing has been translated into seven languages. Her debut, Mars, was published in English by Feminist Press in 2019. She currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

Katherine Littrell is a Sydney-based audiobook narrator who studied English literature at Bryn Mawr College. She has lived in the United States and the U.K. but is glad to be back home in Australia, where she enjoys knitting, making furniture, and talking out loud to herself in small spaces.

Jennifer Zoble translates Balkan literature into English. Her recent translations include Call Me Esteban and Mars, which was selected by Publishers Weekly as a best book of 2019. She is on the faculty of Liberal Studies at New York University, where she teaches writing and translation.