Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix, and two short story collections, Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and elsewhere, and she was named one of Granta's 2017 Best Young American Novelists.Visionary leader, queer lover, 12th-century writer ... the life of Marie de France is triumphantly reimagined in an assertively modern novel about female ambition and creativity... a highly distinctive novel of great vigour and boldness. <b>From mystical visions that may or may not be divine, to the earthy business of abbey pigs, diseases and account books, Groff does it all with purpose and panache</b>
Guardian
Groff's writing is muscular and precise, her themes wildly resonant. Women are dismissed and contained, subject to misogynist attacks and abuse, but gain power collectively - "alone, together". Shockingly, this message is as poignant today as it was, perhaps, 800 years ago
Sunday Times
A dazzlingly clever tale . . . gorgeously precise prose, always elegantly weighted and perfectly economical
The Times
<b>Pitch-perfect</b>
Telegraph
This is a remarkable novel: unusual, profound, transcendental
Evening Standard
It's a breathtaking novel
Financial Times
A <b>thrillingly vivid, adventurous story </b>about women and power that will blow readers' minds. <b>Left me gasping</b>.
- Emma Donoghue,
Fascinating, beguiling, vivid
- Marian Keyes on Twitter,
<b>Luminous, divine, her masterpiece</b>
- Daisy Johnson,
An<b> audacious piece of storytelling</b>, full of <b>passion</b>, <b>wisdom </b>and <b>magic</b>
- Sarah Waters,
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
AN OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Gorgeous, sensual, addictive' SARA COLLINS
'Brightly lit' NAOMI ALDERMAN
Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court and sent to Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey.
Lauren Groff's modern masterpiece is about the establishment of a female utopia.
'A propulsive, captivating read' BRIT BENNETT
'Fascinating, beguiling, vivid' MARIAN KEYES
'A dazzlingly clever tale' THE TIMES
'A thrillingly vivid, adventurous story about women and power that will blow readers' minds. Left me gasping' EMMA DONOGHUE