Description
A livestock veterinarian arrives in the Dutch countryside and becomes consumed by a “Favorite” he should not want—an intense, forbidden attachment that turns obsession into a reckoning. Told in a confessional, second-person voice after punishment has already been served, the novel unfolds as a lamenting, audacious address to his teenage victim, mixing profane intensity with startling lyrical beauty. With echoes of classic transgressive fiction and a deliberately unsettling directness, it explores power, desire, religious upbringing, and the ways language can both seduce and harm. Lucas Rijneveld—known for the International Booker Prize–winning *The Discomfort of Evening*—writes with poetic precision and moral abrasion, holding readers in a paradox of elegance and dread.
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paperback
Faber & Faber, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2024
ISBN: 9780571375509
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First Published
2024
Language
eng
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