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Lapvona: A Novel
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9780593300268
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593300262
ISBN-13
9780593300268
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9050422957
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lapvona : a Novel
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary, Fantasy / Historical
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-061028
Reviews
"Moshfegh expertly creates a world with its own superstitions and laws, both timeless and topical." -- Oprah Daily "The author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation , EW 's pick for the best book of 2018, turns her inimitable lens to a medieval fiefdom ruled by deeply tribal ideas of class, family, and faith. The result reads like a cracked fairy tale, both familiar and fantastically strange (June 21)." -- Entertainment Weekly , 16 novels we're excited for this summer "No one is quite who he first seems in the latest wicked tale from macabre master Moshfegh . . . Sculpting an eerily canny fabular world of contrasts and evil, cartoonish cruelty, in her signature way, Moshfegh conjures a grotesque, disturbing story of gross inequality and senseless strife." -- Booklist "At once immensely alien and deeply human, Moshfegh's latest is a brutal, inventive novel about the ways that stories and the act of storytelling shape us and articulate our world." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Deliriously quirky medieval tale . . . Moshfegh brings her trademark fascination with the grotesque to depictions of the pandemic, inequality, and governmental corruption, making them feel both uncanny and all too familiar. It's a triumph." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One of America's most celebrated authors continues her exploration of what fiction has to offer with a further digression from the standard realist purview and into fantasy. Lapvona promises to chronicle the life of Ina, a blind midwife in a medieval village. Ina's talent doesn't stop at childcare, and allows her a special connection with the surrounding natural world. It's a fascinating premise, and I'm excited to see the yarn Moshfegh is able to weave." -- Chicago Review of Books, "Moshfegh expertly creates a world with its own superstitions and laws, both timeless and topical." -- Oprah Daily " 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." --Maya Chung, The Atlantic "The author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation , EW 's pick for the best book of 2018, turns her inimitable lens to a medieval fiefdom ruled by deeply tribal ideas of class, family, and faith. The result reads like a cracked fairy tale, both familiar and fantastically strange." -- Entertainment Weekly , 16 novels we're excited for this summer "Ottessa Moshfegh brings her trademark brutality to the Middle Ages in this allegorical pandemic novel. . . . interrogating the role faith plays in social and environmental abuses of power." --Adam Morgan, The Scientific American "No one is quite who he first seems in the latest wicked tale from macabre master Moshfegh . . . Sculpting an eerily canny fabular world of contrasts and evil, cartoonish cruelty, in her signature way, Moshfegh conjures a grotesque, disturbing story of gross inequality and senseless strife." -- Booklist "At once immensely alien and deeply human, Moshfegh's latest is a brutal, inventive novel about the ways that stories and the act of storytelling shape us and articulate our world." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Deliriously quirky medieval tale . . . Moshfegh brings her trademark fascination with the grotesque to depictions of the pandemic, inequality, and governmental corruption, making them feel both uncanny and all too familiar. It's a triumph." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One of America's most celebrated authors continues her exploration of what fiction has to offer with a further digression from the standard realist purview and into fantasy. Lapvona promises to chronicle the life of Ina, a blind midwife in a medieval village. Ina's talent doesn't stop at childcare, and allows her a special connection with the surrounding natural world. It's a fascinating premise, and I'm excited to see the yarn Moshfegh is able to weave." -- Chicago Review of Books, "One of America's most celebrated authors continues her exploration of what fiction has to offer with a further digression from the standard realist purview and into fantasy. Lapvona promises to chronicle the life of Ina, a blind midwife in a medieval village. Ina's talent doesn't stop at childcare, and allows her a special connection with the surrounding natural world. It's a fascinating premise, and I'm excited to see the yarn Moshfegh is able to weave." -- Chicago Review of Books, One of " USA Today 's Best Summer Books" "Moshfegh expertly creates a world with its own superstitions and laws, both timeless and topical." -- Oprah Daily " Lapvona tells the story of a shepherd's son who comes fatally close to the rulers of a medieval fiefdom. Moshfegh, following up on her acclaimed My Year of Rest and Relaxation continues to plumb entitlement and class; here, she adds magic and revenge." -- Chicago Tribune " 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." --Maya Chung, The Atlantic "The author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation , EW 's pick for the best book of 2018, turns her inimitable lens to a medieval fiefdom ruled by deeply tribal ideas of class, family, and faith. The result reads like a cracked fairy tale, both familiar and fantastically strange." -- Entertainment Weekly , 16 novels we're excited for this summer "Delightfully weird and full of the richly painted characters and captivating story that makes Moshfegh a master of her craft, this historical fiction throws readers back into Medieval times so completely, you can smell the sheep dung. You'll meet a motherless shepherd, a sadistic lord, a wet nurse with occult powers and a priest whose own faith is tested by devastating famine and drought . " -- Good Housekeeping , "The 40 Best New Books of 2022 (So Far) That You Won't Be Able to Put Down" "Ottessa Moshfegh brings her trademark brutality to the Middle Ages in this allegorical pandemic novel. . . . interrogating the role faith plays in social and environmental abuses of power." --Adam Morgan, The Scientific American "No one is quite who he first seems in the latest wicked tale from macabre master Moshfegh . . . Sculpting an eerily canny fabular world of contrasts and evil, cartoonish cruelty, in her signature way, Moshfegh conjures a grotesque, disturbing story of gross inequality and senseless strife." -- Booklist "At once immensely alien and deeply human, Moshfegh's latest is a brutal, inventive novel about the ways that stories and the act of storytelling shape us and articulate our world." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Deliriously quirky medieval tale . . . Moshfegh brings her trademark fascination with the grotesque to depictions of the pandemic, inequality, and governmental corruption, making them feel both uncanny and all too familiar. It's a triumph." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One of America's most celebrated authors continues her exploration of what fiction has to offer with a further digression from the standard realist purview and into fantasy. Lapvona promises to chronicle the life of Ina, a blind midwife in a medieval village. Ina's talent doesn't stop at childcare, and allows her a special connection with the surrounding natural world. It's a fascinating premise, and I'm excited to see the yarn Moshfegh is able to weave." -- Chicago Review of Books, "Moshfegh expertly creates a world with its own superstitions and laws, both timeless and topical." -- Oprah Daily , Spring Preview "Deliriously quirky medieval tale . . . Moshfegh brings her trademark fascination with the grotesque to depictions of the pandemic, inequality, and governmental corruption, making them feel both uncanny and all too familiar. It's a triumph." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One of America's most celebrated authors continues her exploration of what fiction has to offer with a further digression from the standard realist purview and into fantasy. Lapvona promises to chronicle the life of Ina, a blind midwife in a medieval village. Ina's talent doesn't stop at childcare, and allows her a special connection with the surrounding natural world. It's a fascinating premise, and I'm excited to see the yarn Moshfegh is able to weave." -- Chicago Review of Books
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
PS3613.O77936L37
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