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Lapvona: A Novel
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Lapvona: A Novel Hardcover - 2022

by Moshfegh, Ottessa

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Penguin Press, 2022-06-21. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
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  • Title Lapvona: A Novel
  • Author Moshfegh, Ottessa
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Press
  • Date 2022-06-21
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2405020009
  • ISBN 9780593300268 / 0593300262
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 1.2 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021061028
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

From the publisher

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.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2022, Page 18
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2022, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 04/01/2022, Page 79
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 01/01/2022, Page 9
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/28/2022, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 06/24/2022, Page 0

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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