Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh,Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh - kniha z kategorie Fantasy

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... Moshfeghs 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 Moshfeghs 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. Moshfeghs genius is her ability to rip away the veil, revealing the horrors beneath, in writing so compelling, and bleakly funny, that we cant 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.