![]() ![]() The novel is extraordinarily violent and disturbing, featuring child molestation, cannibalism and worse. The experience of reading this one is like being stuck in a room with about 20 people defecating, but none of them is Kate Moss. Moshfegh has said that reading her books is ‘like seeing Kate Moss take a shit’. The trouble is, the many characters rather resemble one another: they’re all disgusting, immoral, selfish and kinky they all deserve, more or less, the more or less terrible fates that await them. Moshfegh’s fiction tends to focus on one person, but here she has a groaning cast list. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the start of the novel Marek, the dim son of a local shepherd, murders Villiam’s son so Villiam, who never much cared for his boy, decrees that Marek should become his replacement heir and live the good life in the manor, too. You wouldn’t want to live there: it’s an impoverished hellhole, presided over by a feudal lord, Villiam, who has a medically intriguing appetite (nothing can sate him) and an equally developed taste for cruelty. Lapvona refers to the name of the village where the novel is set. We’re not in contemporary America any more but in somewhere like medieval Europe, and the characters aren’t ‘prettier than Sharon Stone’ but proper old-school mingers, all tooth and gangle and belly. There’s more plot in Moshfegh’s latest novel Lapvona. Prince Harry’s bruising time in the High Court ![]()
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