{"product_id":"my-heavenly-favorite-hardcover","title":"My Heavenly Favorite - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucas Rijneveld\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, \u003ci\u003eMy Heavenly Favorite \u003c\/i\u003eis the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, \u003ci\u003eThe Discomfort of Evening\u003c\/i\u003e. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his \"Favorite\"--the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy's body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNarrated after the veterinarian has been punished for his crimes, Rijneveld's 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 \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e story with a kind of perverse glee, taking the reader into otherwise unimaginable spaces full of pop lyrics, horror novels, the Favorite's fantasized conversations with Freud and Hitler, and her dreams of flight and destruction and transcendence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Heavenly Favorite\u003c\/i\u003e establishes Rijneveld as one of the most daring and brilliant writers on the world stage.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucas Rijneveld\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Discomfort of Evening\u003c\/i\u003e, which was the first Dutch book to win the International Booker Prize, as well as three poetry collections. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichele Hutchison\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary translator from Dutch and French into English. She is the winner of the Vondel Translation Prize for her translation of \u003ci\u003eStage Four\u003c\/i\u003e by Sander Kollaard and the International Booker Prize together with Marieke Lucas Rijneveld for \u003ci\u003eThe Discomfort of Evening\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763681493280,"sku":"9781644452738","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/366d27e4848c6391298f1d4fce052b15.webp?v=1780238988","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/my-heavenly-favorite-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}