{"product_id":"death-in-her-hands-book-ottessa-moshfegh-9781984879356","title":"Death in Her Hands","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e An] intricate and unsettling new novel . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath in Her Hands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is not a murder mystery, nor is it really a story about self-deception or the perils of escapism. Rather, it's a haunting meditation on the nature and meaning of art.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Kevin Power, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. \u003ci\u003eHer name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body.\u003c\/i\u003e But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBecoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past; we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, \u003ci\u003eDeath in Her Hands \u003c\/i\u003easks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both reflect the truth and keep us blind to it. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, and the stakes have never been higher.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49777408999697,"sku":"CIN1984879359G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49884410380561,"sku":"CIN1984879359A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50031784296721,"sku":"CIN1984879359VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50245622235409,"sku":"GOR010982342","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1984879359.jpg?v=1750901207","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/death-in-her-hands-buch-ottessa-moshfegh-9781984879356","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}