New York, am Anfang des neuen Jahrtausends. Einer jungen Frau stehen die Türen zu einer Welt aus Glanz und Glitter offen. Sie ist groß, schlank und ausgesprochen hübsch. Gerade hat sie an einer Elite-Universität ihren Abschluss gemacht...

'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.' This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time"I can't recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I'm shocked and...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by: The Washington Post, Vogue, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, New York Magazine, Paste Magazine, LitHub, E! News Online, and many moreFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative...

Ottessa Moshfegh has written four previous books: McGlue (2014); Eileen, which was awarded the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Homesick for Another World (2017); and My Year of Rest and Relaxation...

„Lapvona“ von Ottessa Moshfegh ist ein düsterer und atmosphärischer Roman, der in einem fiktiven mittelalterlichen Dorf namens Lapvona spielt. Die Geschichte folgt dem jungen Marek, einem Außenseiter mit einer komplizierten Beziehung zu...

Ottessa Moshfegh has written four previous books: McGlue (2014); Eileen, which was awarded the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Homesick for Another World (2017); and My Year of Rest and Relaxation...

"Lapvona" ist ein historischer Roman von Ottessa Moshfegh, der in einem fiktiven Königreich im Mittelalter spielt. Die Geschichte folgt Adalia, einer Bauerntochter mit außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten und Visionen, die sie oft in...

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her short fiction has earned her the Paris Review Plimpton Prize, a creative...

"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...

The debut novella from one of contemporary fiction's most exciting young voices, now in a new edition.Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a...

Lapvona von Moshfegh, Ottessa