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SENSATIONAL WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEIn the tempestuous summer of 2005, a local veterinarian becomes enraptured by a 14-year-old farmer's daughter - his 'favourite' - as he tends her father's cows. This deeply troubled soul is our narrator: a man who believes he offers the object of his love a tantalizing path out of the constrictions of her conservative rural life, a chance to escape to a world of fantasy. But the obsessive reliance he cultivates builds into a terrifying trap, with a crime and confession at the heart of it that threatens to rip their small community apart.An unflinching excavation of taboos and social norms, My Heavenly Favourite is a torrent of grief and obsession. The remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening, this profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose, which holds the reader fast to the page.
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En la campiña holandesa, en un pueblo donde nunca pasa ni nadie, un veterinario rural cumple con otra visita rutinaria a la granja vecina. Es el inicio de un verano asfixiante en el que corren rumores de una enfermedad bovina que se extiende por la zona, pero él solo tiene ojos para la hija pequeña del ganadero, que pasa los días de vacaciones jugando en la casa familiar. Nadie sospecharía lo mucho que ambos pueden tener en común, la sensibilidad y el dolor que conecta sus destinos. Nadie excepto él, que sabe que, desde ese momento, su vida solo existe a su lado. Hay grandes historias en la literatura, igual que hay grandes voces. Rijneveld pone la suya, que ya le valió el Booker International con su primer libro La inquietud de la noche, al servicio de una de estas: la reinterpretación de Lolita, la historia que definió qué consideramos amor.
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*WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020* 'One of the best debut novels I have ever read. Shockingly good ... A classic.' Max Porter The sensational Dutch bestseller: 'Exceptional' (Financial Times) 'Exhilarating' (Independent) 'Luminous' (Observer) 'Beautifully wild' (Guardian) 'An earthy and irreverent new voice, thrillingly uninhibited' (New York Times) I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters, the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads, the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - unlocking a darkness that threatens to derail them all. A bestselling sensation in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other, exquisitely captured in Michele Hutchison's translation.
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