Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - unlocking a darkness that threatens to derail them all.

Jas lives with her devout farming family in the rural Netherlands. One winter's day, her older brother joins an ice skating trip. Resentful at being left alone, she makes a perverse plea to God; he never returns. As grief overwhelms the farm, Jas succumbs to a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies, watching her family disintegrate into a darkness that threatens to derail them all.A bestselling sensation in the Netherlands by a prize-winning young poet, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's debut novel lays everything bare. It is a world of language unlike any other, which Michele Hutchison's striking translation captures in all its wild, violent beauty.

En la campiña holandesa, en un pueblo donde nunca pasa ni nadie, un veterinario rural cumple con otra visita rutinaria a la granja vecina. Es el inicio de un verano asfixiante en el que corren rumores de una enfermedad bovina que se extiende por la zona, pero el solo tiene ojos para la hija pequeña del ganadero, que pasa los dias de vacaciones jugando en la casa familiar. Nadie sospecharia lo mucho que ambos pueden tener en comun, la sensibilidad y el dolor que conecta sus destinos. Nadie excepto el, que sabe que, desde ese momento, su vida solo existe a su lado. Hay grandes historias en la literatura, igual que hay grandes voces. Rijneveld pone la suya, que ya le valio el Booker International con su primer libro La inquietud de la noche, al servicio de una de estas: la reinterpretacion de Lolita, la historia que definio que consideramos amor.

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In the tempestuous summer of 2005, a 14-year-old farmer's daughter makes friends with the local veterinarian who looks after her father's cows. He is trying to escape trauma, while she is trying to escape into a world of fantasy. Their obsessive reliance on each other's stories builds into a terrifying trap, with a confession at the heart of it that threatens to rip their small community apart.Indelible, audacious and impossible-to-put-down, My Heavenly Favourite confirms Rijneveld as one of the braves