Lapvona

What impresses here is not so much Moshfegh's abilities with character or narrative, or even her language . . . as the qualities Lapvona shares with a Francis Bacon painting: depicting in blood-red vitality, without morals or judgment, the human animal in its native chaos.

Guardian

Moshfegh expertly creates a world with its own superstitions and laws, both timeless and topical.

Oprah Daily

Moshfegh's genius is her ability to rip away the veil, revealing the horrors beneath, in writing so compelling, and bleakly funny, that we can't bear to look away.

i

A witty, vicious novel.. . Moshfegh is one of our most thrilling chroniclers of the abject

Observer (USA)

Booker-shortlisted Ottessa Moshfegh is likely to out-weird most things published next year - set in a medieval fiefdom, could it be a work of genius, too?

Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail, *Books to Look Out For 2022*

Deliriously quirky medieval tale . . . Moshfegh brings her trademark fascination with the grotesque to depictions of the pandemic, inequality, and governmental corruption, making them feel both uncanny and all too familiar. It's a triumph.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

[A] truly unique novel.

Times Literary Supplement

Moshfegh writes brilliantly bizarre. Her arresting fourth novel continues this tradition.

Mail on Sunday

Despite its medieval milieu, Lapvona is a quintessential Moshfegh book. It has the warped earthiness of the author's first two novels... [and] a powerful undercurrent of allegory.

Economist