My Heavenly Favourite: Lucas Rijneveld (pre-order)

£16.99

Release date: February 1st 2024

Arriving swan-like in the lake of our anticipation for extremely messed-up books, we are delighted to see the return of Lucas Rijneveld – The Discomfort Of Evening was one of our favourites back in 2020, and My Heavenly Favourite looks to be an impeccable follow-up. Translated by Michele Hutchison.

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Description

I heard you laughing from time to time and you stayed lying there on the flattened hay, and after you left, your body’s imprint was left behind, and I rested my hand on the dry blades of grass that were still slightly warm and I wanted to carry on feeling you forever, really I did, but everything changed when you began to speak to me, on 7 July to be precise. In the tempestuous summer of 2005, on a day that is as hot as the inside of a bovine, a 14-year-old farmer’s daughter makes friends with the local veterinarian who looks after her father’s cows. He has reached ‘the biblical age of seven times seven’ and is trying to escape trauma, while she is trying to escape into a world of fantasy.

Their obsessive reliance on each other’s stories builds into a terrifying trap, with a confession at the heart of it that threatens to rip their small Dutch community apart. Indelible, audacious and impossible-to-put-down, this novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose. With its literary sleight and magnifying glass on human instinct, My Heavenly Favourite establishes Rijneveld as one of the bravest and brilliant writers on the world stage.

Praise for The Discomfort of Evening: ‘Exceptional.’ Financial Times / ‘Exhilarating.’ Independent / ‘Luminous.’ Observer / ‘Beautifully wild.’ Guardian

Additional information

Weight 0.27 kg
Dimensions 24 × 15.9 × 2.9 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

432

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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