Lapvona: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh

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In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the communityโ€™s faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfeghโ€™s most exciting leap yet

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In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the communityโ€™s faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfeghโ€™s most exciting leap yet

Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his motherโ€”his father told him she died in childbirth. One of Marekโ€™s few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby, as she did many of the villageโ€™s children. Inaโ€™s gifts extend beyond childcare: for some people, her ability to receive transmissions of sacred knowledge from the natural world is a godsend. For others, Inaโ€™s home in the woods outside of the village is a place to fear and to avoid, a godless place.

Among the villagers is Father Barnabas, the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor, Villiam, whose hilltop manor contains a secret embarrassment of riches. The peopleโ€™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 Villiam and the priest, especially in this year of record drought and famine.ย But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lordโ€™s family, new and occult forces arise to upset the old order. By yearโ€™s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, the natural world and the spirit world, will prove to be very thin indeed.

Lapvona: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh
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