Nordic Council Literature Prize. A collection of stories that tenderly and crudely shows how easy it is to let out the primate inside us.

Naja Marie Aidt's stories are populated by beings who, despite being consumed by anguish and frustration, move with ease in the prosperous and orderly world in which they live... until suddenly something creaks and the impeccable face of civilized man begins to crack, revealing the primate within: a baboon capable of devouring its fellow men. Such is the portrait that the Danish author paints of our turbulent times, in which the harmless becomes dangerous and the insignificant becomes something of grotesque proportions, where the most trivial situations unleash a small hell and intolerable events have no consequences whatsoever. Written in a minimalist, concise style and with an enviable sense of rhythm, Naja Marie Aidt's stories dare to shock and irritate, placing the reader at a point where he or she wants and doesn't want to continue reading, doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Winner of the most prestigious literary award in Scandinavian literature, the Nordic Council Literature Prize, Baboon highlights how vulnerable everything is and how in a world lacking humanity and love, understanding and tolerance, it is easy to break the safe surface and open the way to madness.