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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 was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body. Shaky even on her best days, she is also alone, and new to this area, having moved here from her long-time ho...

»Um das ganz klarzumachen: Ottessa Moshfegh ist verdammt noch mal genial!« FASUnbefangen und mit bissiger Ironie erzählt Ottessa Moshfegh von einer Frau, die Winterschlaf hält, um ihrer aufgeputschten Scheinwelt zu entkommen. Der neue Roman von einer der wichtigsten neuen Stimmen der amerikanischen Literatur.

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Storys wie Nadelstiche, die tief unter die Haut gehen. In ihren preisgekrönten Erzählungen schafft Ottessa Moshfegh ein groteskes Panorama menschlicher Bos- und Dummheit. Da ist beispielsweise John, der sich an seiner verstorbenen Frau rächen will, indem er sie posthum mit demselben Strichjungen betrügt, mit dem sie ihn mutmaßlich hintergangen hat. Larry arbeitet in einer betreuten Wohneinrichtung für »Menschen mit Entwicklungsstörungen«, weil...

»Eine erwachsene Frau ist wie ein Kojote - sie braucht nicht viel zum Leben.«Man kann dieser Welt nicht entkommen. Es sei denn, man nimmt das Gesetz in die eigene Hand: Eileen Dunlop hasst sich und die Welt. Verantwortlich für ihren alkoholkranken Vater, arbeitet sie in einer Vollzugsanstalt für jugendliche Straftäter. Als sie dort auf die charismatische Harvard-Absolventin Rebecca Saint John trifft, ist Eileen sofort verzaubert. Doch für die ...

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 was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body. Shaky even on her best days, she is also alone, and new to this area, having moved here from her longtime hom...

From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home.While on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones...

From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new homeWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones....

Er is iets onheilspellends aan de hand in de verhalen van Ottessa Moshfegh, iets dat haast een beetje gevaarlijk aanvoelt, terwijl ze ook betoverend zijn en je soms hardop aan het lachen maken. Haar personages zijn altijd onhandig op de een of andere manier, ze verlangen naar contact met anderen en proberen hun leven te beteren, elk op hun eigen manier, maar worden vaak gehinderd door slechte prikkels en existentiële onzekerheden. Heimwee naar...

Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of 2018"One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound." - Entertainment Weekly From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by ...

El libro del que todo el mundo habla en Estados Unidos. Una novela sobre la falta de ganas de levantarse de la cama.«Puede que esta sea la mejor novela existencial escrita por un autor no francés.».- KirkusEn Mi año de descanso y relajación, Ottessa Moshfegh hace de Manhattan el epicentro de una civilización, la del año 2000, dominada por la apatía. Como una oscura bella durmiente, la narradora de esta novela decide encerrarse durante un añ...

Ottessa Moshfegh has written four previous books: McGlue (2014), Eileen, which was awarded the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Homesick for Another World (2017), and My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and will be filmed by Yorgos Lanthimos, the Oscar-winning director of The Favourite.

New York, am Anfang des neuen Jahrtausends. Einer jungen Frau stehen die Türen zu einer Welt aus Glanz und Glitter offen. Sie ist groß, schlank und ausgesprochen hübsch. Gerade hat sie an einer Elite-Universität ihren Abschluss gemacht und arbeitet nun in einer angesagten Kunstgalerie. Sie wohnt im teuersten Viertel der Stadt, was sie sich leisten kann, weil sie vor Jahren schon ein kleines Vermögen geerbt hat. Es könnte also nicht besser lauf...

The debut novella from one of contemporary fiction's most exciting young voices, now in a new edition.Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voya...

Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of 2018"One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound." - Entertainment Weekly From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by ...

Ottessa Moshfegh has written four previous books: McGlue (2014), Eileen, which was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Homesick for Another World (2017), and My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and will be filmed by Yorgos Lanthimos, the Oscar-winning director of The Favourite.

Eine Kleinstadt in Neuengland, Weihnachten 1964. Die vierundzwanzigjährige Eileen Dunlop hasst sich und die Welt. Sie muss für ihren paranoiden, alkoholkranken Vater sorgen, einen ehemaligen Cop, mit dem zusammen sie in einem heruntergekommenen Haus lebt. Ihren mageren Lohn verdient sie sich als Sekretärin in einer Vollzugsanstalt für jugendliche Straftäter. Als die schöne Harvard-Absolventin Rebecca Saint John ihren Dienst als Erziehungsbeauf...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time"I can't recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I'm shocked and scandalized. She's brilliant, this young woman."-David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by Th...

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her short fiction has earned her the Paris Review Plimpton Prize, a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and an O. Henry Award. Her collection Homesick for Another World was published in January 2017. McGlue was her debut novel, and the winne...

Eravamo nel 1964, stava per succedere di tutto." Le ragazze americane scoprono le minigonne, fumano per strada, conquistano nuove libertà. Ma Eileen Dunlop non è come le altre ragazze, non cerca di rendersi attraente, non ascolta i Beatles e non guarda Ed Sullivan alla tv, non le interessano le cose divertenti o popolari. Vive con il padre alcolizzato in una cittadina di periferia, in un quartiere con le strade fiancheggiate da alberi e gente ...