Lapvona Lapvona

Lapvona

A Novel

    • 3.9 • 250 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 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
June 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.3
MB

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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

viviintheskywithdiamonds ,

Nobody understands Ottessa Mosfegh like I do.

This book was INCREDIBLE. Everyone writing a bad review was very obviously not the intended audience. If you like Ethel Cain this book is EXACTLY the book. This book is about a Godless society, the only moral being the IDEA of a God and not God itself. A truly human book of disgusting gross true real mortality. Flesh will always betray the soul and this book shows it. This book was written for people who are intrigued by true human UGLY and what happens to a human with no real morals. This book is incredible and remains one of my top 5. Go read this if this sounds interesting PLEASE!

NGJane ,

YUCK

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