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Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
An Instant New York Times Bestseller!"Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don't want to live in, but from which you can't look away." --The Atlantic
In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community's faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet
Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek's few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some people, Ina's ability to receive transmissions of sacred knowledge from the natural world is a godsend. For others, Ina's home in the woods is a godless place.
The people's desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by their depraved lord and governor, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord's family, new and occult forces arise to upset the old order. By year's end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, and the natural world and the spirit world will prove to be very thin indeed.
Ottessa Moshfegh is a Boston-based fiction writer. Fence, Noon, Vice, The Paris Review, and other literary publications and online journals have published her short stories. She received the Plimpton Discovery Prize for her stories in The Paris Review last year, as well as the Modern Prize in Prose from Fence Books, which will publish her first novel, McGlue, in November 2014. The National Endowment for the Arts recently awarded her a creative writing fellowship. She has a BA in English from Barnard College and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University, and she is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, where she is working on a new novel and a collection of short stories. She lives in Oakland, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593300282 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593300289 |
| Title | Lapvona |
| Author | Ottessa Moshfegh |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2023-06-20 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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