Private Rites: The haunting new novel following three queer sisters at the end of the world from the author of Our Wives Under the Sea

di Julia Armfield (Autore)

Hannah Van Der Westhuysen (Narratore)

Fourth Estate, 2024

'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN 'Stunning' DAZED 'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK ‘Hauntingly good’ iNEWS ’A must read’ GLAMOUR 'One of my favourite novels' JEFF VANDERMEER From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. There’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded It’s been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway. As the sisters come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of his legacy, they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it. Something sinister seems to be unfolding, something related to their mother’s long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always been unusually interested in their lives. Soon, it becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a very particular purpose, one with shattering implications for their family and their imperilled world. ‘Armfield writes so gracefully’ THE TIMES ‘Evocative yet grounded’ OBSERVER ‘A chilling vision of a future capital that I’ve found impossible to shake’ INEWS ‘Ballard-ian in apocalyptic scope … Deeply, passionately, messily human’ PAUL TREMBLAY ‘A signature cocktail of deadpan wit and staggering beauty’ ALICE SLATER ‘Brilliant, original … an era-defining writer’ KALIANE BRADLEY ‘Every page guillotines you with its wisdom’ TOM BENN In PRIVATE RITES, Armfield presents a feminist narrative that is both literary and psychological in nature. The exploration of LGBTQ+ themes, particularly lesbian relationships, adds a layer of depth and complexity to this top-tier fiction. For fans of Mona Awad (Bunny), Ottessa Moshfegh (My Year of Rest and Relaxation), Max Gladstone (This is How You Lose the Time War), Mariana Enriquez (A Sunny Place for Shady People), and Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood). HarperCollins 2024

• Autore: Julia Armfield
• Narratore: Hannah Van Der Westhuysen
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 08:27:14
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: Fourth Estate
• EAN: 9780008608064

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