Lapvona: A Novel

ISBN: 0593300289

Author: Moshfegh, Ottessa

Condition: New

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 dont want to live in, but from which you cant look away. -The AtlanticIn a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the communitys faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfeghs most exciting leap yetLittle Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Mareks few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some people, Inas ability to receive transmissions of sacred knowledge from the natural world is a godsend. For others, Inas home in the woods is a godless place.The peoples 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 lords family, new and occult forces arise to upset the old order. By years 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.