Paradise Rot

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive as the days pass. Jo’s sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.

This debut novel from a critically adored artist and musician presents a heady and hypersensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.

Tradução: Marjam Idriss

Editora: Verso Books

ISBN: 9781804294529

Data de publicação: 2024

Encadernação: Capa mole

• «A lurid hothouse of a thriller about a female student’s sexual awakening» – Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian
• «A sensual, putrid reimagining of the original sin that explores the dynamics between two young women … [a] striking debut novel … To read Paradise Rot is to inhabit one of Hval’s eerie, theory-conscious soundscapes. As in a dream, the closeness of this world to our own and its simultaneous uncanny otherness, awash with potent symbolism, leaves us looking at everything anew. It took nine years to be translated into English; I only hope we needn’t wait so long for the two other books, already published in Norwegian, from this talented polymath» – Financial Times