Verso Fiction

Paradise Rot: A Novel

Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss

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Product Details
Format:
Paperback / softback
ISBN:
9781786633835
Published:
02 Oct 2018
Publisher:
Verso Books
Dimensions:
160 pages - 198 x 129 x 12mm
Number of Illustrations:
Paperback with flaps
Availability:
Not available (reason unspecified)
Series:
Verso Fiction

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.
A lyrical and uncompromising debut novel from a highly acclaimed musician and artist, who has achieved renown for the sharpness of her work, and its sexual and political imagery.
Norwegian musician and writer Jenny Hval has honed an intellectual and uncompromising view of politics and sexuality in her prose as well as in records that include Blood Bitch; Apocalypse, Girl; and Innocence Is Kinky. Paradise Rot is the first of her books to appear in English.
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