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My Heavenly Favorite (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781644453230)
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Lucas Rijneveld
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xA 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. An unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms, My Heavenly Favorite "confirms Rijneveld's singular, deeply discomforting talent" (Financial Times UK).Author: Lucas Rijneveld
ISBN-10: 1644453231
ISBN-13: 9781644453230
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.00d
By Lucas Rijneveld
xLucas Rijneveld grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. He is the author of The Discomfort of Evening, which was the first Dutch book to win the International Booker Prize, as well as three poetry collections.
Michele Hutchison is a literary translator from Dutch and French into English. She is the winner of the Vondel Translation Prize for her translation of Stage Four by Sander Kollaard and the International Booker Prize together with Marieke Lucas Rijneveld for The Discomfort of Evening.Recently Viewed Products
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