Lapvona Lapvona

Lapvona

A Novel

    • 3.9 • 200 Ratings
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Publisher Description

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 in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of 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, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life’s few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby, as she did so many of the village’s children. Ina’s gifts extend beyond childcare: she possesses a unique ability to communicate with the natural world. Her gift often brings her the transmission of sacred knowledge on levels far beyond those available to other villagers, however religious they might be. For some people, Ina’s home in the woods outside of the village is a place to fear and to avoid, a godless place. 
 
Among their number is Father Barnabas, the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor, Villiam, whose hilltop manor contains a secret embarrassment of riches. 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 Villiam and the priest, 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 upset the old order. By year’s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, the natural world and the spirit world, will prove to be very thin indeed.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
June 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Cali2011paradise ,

Good but..

Rambled on for quite some time. Felt like a fever dream. There was so “turning point”. It was just like one long stream of weird/horrifying things but I liked it

adip2017 ,

Strange yet intriguing

3.5 Stars - what an odd story this was. The only way I can think to describe this book is that it is like a dark fairytale. Parts of this book were disturbing, but I don’t feel it is nearly as bad as some of the reviews describe. I overall found it to be a fascinating iteration of desperation and despair. This is not a book you can recommend to just anyone as I could see that it may be offputting, but I can’t deny that it kept me interested.

bexabexa ,

Did not put it down

Im a slow reader like takes 2 months to read a book but this I read in a week!

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