Autor Ottessa Moshfegh
There's something eerily unsettling about the author's stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful - and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearning for connection and betterment, in very…
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense While on her daily walk with her dog in the nearby woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with stones. Her name…
When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.' This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by…
From the author of TikTok sensation My Year of Rest and Relaxation. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, The Times, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping & Daily Mail. In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters,…
It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of…
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s…
Môže jedna mŕtvola súvisieť s podstatou literatúry? Na prechádzke so psom nájde Vesta v lese pod kameňom rukou napísaný odkaz: Volala sa Magda. Nikto nikdy nezistí, kto ju zabil. Nebol som to ja. Tu je jej mŕtve telo. Nijaké telo naokolo nevidieť. Je…
This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. It was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2016 and shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award 2016. It was also selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Observer and Daily Telegraph.…
Prečo by naša hrdinka nemala byť šťastná? Veď je mladá, pekná, nedávno skončila univerzitu, dostala dobré miesto v galérii a býva vo vlastnom byte na Manhattane, ktorý zaplatila z dedičstva. Napriek tomu v jej srdci zostáva temné prázdno. Asi to nebude...
New York roku 2000: šestadvacetileté vypravěčce život rozdal nejlepší karty. Je krásná, pracuje v galerii, má tučné dědictví a byt na Manhattanu. Přesto jí něco schází – a nemůže za to jen nedávná smrt rodičů, sadomasochistické přátelství s Revou a destruktivní…