Lapvona

Compelling… Moshfegh’s bold venture beyond her comfort zone in Lapvona is a welcome promise of how much more she has to offer American literature today. * Financial Times *What impresses here is not so much Moshfegh’s abilities with character or narrative, or even her language … as the qualities Lapvona shares with a Francis Bacon painting: depicting in blood-red vitality, without morals or judgment, the human animal in its native chaos. * Guardian *Moshfegh expertly creates a world with its own superstitions and laws, both timeless and topical. * Oprah Daily *Moshfegh’s genius is her ability to rip away the veil, revealing the horrors beneath, in writing so compelling, and bleakly funny, that we can’t bear to look away. * i *A witty, vicious novel.. . Moshfegh is one of our most thrilling chroniclers of the abject * Observer (USA) *Booker-shortlisted Ottessa Moshfegh is likely to out-weird most things published next year - set in a medieval fiefdom, could it be a work of genius, too? – Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail, Books to Look Out For 2022 *Deliriously quirky medieval tale … Moshfegh brings her trademark fascination with the grotesque to depictions of the pandemic, inequality, and governmental corruption, making them feel both uncanny and all too familiar. It’s a triumph. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *[A] truly unique novel. * Times Literary Supplement *Moshfegh writes brilliantly bizarre. Her arresting fourth novel continues this tradition. * Mail on Sunday *Despite its medieval milieu, Lapvona is a quintessential Moshfegh book. It has the warped earthiness of the author’s first two novels… [and] a powerful undercurrent of allegory. * Economist *

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England and the author of six books. Eileen was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands and Lapvona were all New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. She lives in Southern California.