The Wax Child by Olga Ravn games Crossing light years

Crossing light years

300 illustrations

to the Scottish wilderness

Award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians

The Wax Child by Olga Ravn games Crossing light yearsDATE OF RELEASE: 24 SEPT 2026 It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper.