Rijneveld Lucas - My Heavenly Favorite A Novel - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A harrowing unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International Prize A confession a lament a mad gush of grief and obsession My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his Favorite the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence and longs to have a boy's body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life. Narrated after the veterinarian has been punished for his crimes Rijneveld's audacious profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose which holds the reader fast to the page. Rijneveld refracts the contours of the Lolita story with a kind of perverse glee taking the reader into otherwise unimaginable spaces full of pop lyrics horror novels the Favorite's fantasized conversations with Freud and Hitler and her dreams of flight and destruction and transcendence. An unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms My Heavenly Favorite establishes Rijneveld as one of the most daring and brilliant writers on the world stage.
Title: My Heavenly Favorite A Novel
Author(s): Rijneveld Lucas
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644452738
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/5/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction