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My Heavenly Favorite

- A Novel
Af: Lucas Rijneveld Engelsk Hardback

My Heavenly Favorite

- A Novel
Af: Lucas Rijneveld Engelsk Hardback
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A harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International Prize

A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his “Favorite”—the farmer’s daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy’s body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life.

Narrated after the veterinarian has been punished for his crimes, Rijneveld’s audacious, profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose, which holds the reader fast to the page. Rijneveld refracts the contours of the Lolita story with a kind of perverse glee, taking the reader into otherwise unimaginable spaces full of pop lyrics, horror novels, the Favorite’s fantasized conversations with Freud and Hitler, and her dreams of flight and destruction and transcendence.

An unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms, My Heavenly Favorite establishes Rijneveld as one of the most daring and brilliant writers on the world stage.

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A harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International Prize

A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his “Favorite”—the farmer’s daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy’s body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life.

Narrated after the veterinarian has been punished for his crimes, Rijneveld’s audacious, profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose, which holds the reader fast to the page. Rijneveld refracts the contours of the Lolita story with a kind of perverse glee, taking the reader into otherwise unimaginable spaces full of pop lyrics, horror novels, the Favorite’s fantasized conversations with Freud and Hitler, and her dreams of flight and destruction and transcendence.

An unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms, My Heavenly Favorite establishes Rijneveld as one of the most daring and brilliant writers on the world stage.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781644452738
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1644452731
Udg. Dato: 5 mar 2024
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 162mm
Forlag: Graywolf Press
Oplagsdato: 5 mar 2024
Forfatter(e): Lucas Rijneveld
Forfatter(e) Lucas Rijneveld


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781644452738


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 288


Udgave


Længde 29mm


Bredde 236mm


Højde 162mm


Udg. Dato 5 mar 2024


Oplagsdato 5 mar 2024


Forlag Graywolf Press

Kategori sammenhænge