Description
| Product ID: | 9781788738958 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Girls Against God |
| Authors: | Author: Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Fiction and Related items, Fiction & related items, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction in translation, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto from the author of the acclaimed Paradise Rot A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson. Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic. Jenny Hval''s latest novel is a radical fusion of queer feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, writing and art. "Strange and lyrical. Hval’s writing is surreal and rich with the grotesque banalities of human existence." —Publishers Weekly "The themes of alienation, queerness, and the unsettling nature of desire align Hval with modern mainstays like Chris Kraus, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Maggie Nelson." —Pitchfork |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-22 |