- corruption, religion, belief, cruelty
A fateful year in the life of a thirteen-year-old shepherd's son living in Lapvona, a fiefdom ruled by a corrupt, incompetent and feckless lord.
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Grave, prestige, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Angle Editorial, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, PENGUIN US
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788420461502
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“The bandits came again on Easter.”
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