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Lapvona
- Narrated by: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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In the land of Lapvona, the lord of the land Villiam is cheating the local villagers of their food, their water, their livelihoods. Grotesque and ridiculous, he marries the pregnant and tongueless ex-nun Agata, whom he believes will make him God, and his son will be the second Christ.
It's a land of murder, cannibalism, incest and rape. Despite all of the characters' individual inadequacies and madness, you find yourself completely engrossed in each character's fate, be it Marek, Jude, Agata, Villiam, Lispeth, Ina, Father Barnabas. It's an anti-fairytale within a fairytale—maybe this is what hell on earth looks like? Is it an indictment of humanity, of religion, of grotesque despots?
An original work of brilliance—singular, funny, horrifying and entertaining in equal measure.
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- Akhilesh
- 08-12-23
Dark AF
The story meanders through one dark turn to another. There is no respite and i kind of was hooked but alas there isn't much to it and many things remain unexplained.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- NP
- 14-02-23
Different, but a bit draggy
Lapvona is an interesting novel. There are plenty of triggers here to set most people on edge. But, it was these deviances which made the book interesting.
The first 70% of the book definitely hooks you. The last 30% feels not well thought out and draggy.
Still, it is a good listen. This book felt like a commentary on the evil that all of us have hidden in our psyche. Sometimes this evil is a consequence of the life we’ve been handed down, other times it is a result of the choices we do/don’t make and the rest of the times it is something we are born with. It was also a commentary on the status of religion and how corrupt religion has become over time- misshapen and unrecognisable over the years.
A 3.5 star book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-07-22
Gruesomely fantastic.
Very akin to Robert Eggers' work. Haunting and captivating. In Lapvona, God is indeed dead.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Shubham Gautam
- 18-03-23
Incoherent mess
Meandering plot with no sense of climax. Absolute waste of a credit. Skip this one.
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