Overview
āA tour de force of transgressive imaginationā (The Guardian UK) by the winner of the International Booker Prize
A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveldās international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening, now available in paperback. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his āFavoriteāāthe farmerās daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boyās body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life.
Narrated after the veterinarian has been punished for his crimes, Rijneveldās audacious, profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose, which holds the reader fast to the page. Rijneveld refracts the contours of the Lolita story with a kind of perverse glee, taking the reader into otherwise unimaginable spaces. An unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms, My Heavenly Favorite āconfirms Rijneveldās singular, deeply discomforting talentā (Financial Times UK).
This book title, My Heavenly Favorite (A Novel), ISBN: 9781644453230, by Lucas Rijneveld, published by Graywolf Press (May 6, 2025) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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