Lapvona
Welcome to Lapvona. In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself at the centre of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test . . .
Discover the Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of TikTok sensation My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
Review Compelling... Moshfegh's bold venture beyond her comfort zone in Lapvona is a welcome promise of how much more she has to offer American literature today. ― Financial Times
What impresses here is not so much Moshfegh's abilities with character or narrative, or even her language . . .as the qualities Lapvona shares with a Francis Bacon painting: depicting in blood-red vitality, without morals or judgment, the human animal in its native chaos. ― Guardian
Moshfegh expertly creates a world with its own superstitions and laws, both timeless and topical. ― Oprah Daily
Moshfegh's genius is her ability to rip away the veil, revealing the horrors beneath, in writing so compelling, and bleakly funny, that we can't bear to look away. ― i
A witty, vicious novel.. . Moshfegh is one of our most thrilling chroniclers of the abject ― Observer (USA) About the Author Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.
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