The Wax Child [Hardcover]

An astounding, haunting tale of accused witchesa book of sorcery itselffrom the celebrated author of It should be read by everyone. Dark and strange and beautiful and completely gripping Olga Ravn is a master and an alchemist. There's nobody else doing quite what she does. Gripping... This devilishly subversive feminist anthem is one of a kind. The story is told by a doll carved from beeswax...?a fascinating and totally inhuman consciousness, one of many startling feats in this book. Ravn's prose is striking, richly marbled with quotation and detail pulled from primary sources. The texture of this true language is perfect alongside Ravn's keen ear for viscera: blood sucked from a cut finger, pens scratching and leaking, teeth sliding through the narrator's wax body. Addictive and unsettling. An instant classic that feels passed down from centuries ago and yet utterly unique, fresh, and modern. Another stunning, surreal journey from an author who seems to never disappoint. Ravns narrative gathers pace with unflinching and claustrophobic swiftness. Ravn creates a visceral atmosphere using rich, tactile details...?The Wax Child?asks to be read in a single, rapturous sitting in which its dark, fast-paced and disturbing narrative pulls the reader immediately into otherworldly environs. An intensely poetic portrait of everyday sorcery and female solidarity...?The Wax Child?is richly evocative, beautiful, creepy and visceral Olga Ravn's prose is at once concise and freewheeling, and bristles with astonishing metaphors... An outstanding novel. This startling, original and beautifully?written novel invites us to rethink our ideas about how history is told and what witchcraft really means. Ravns fourth novel is gorgeously mercurial: fragmented, slippery, unresolved (a quality masterfully captured by Martin Aitkens translation). Ravn is one of Europes brightest young writers; the Danes eerie sci-fi tale,?The Employees, almost won the International Booker lU