The Wax Child - Hardcover

Ravn, Olga

 
9780811238830: The Wax Child
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0811238830 ISBN 13: 9780811238830
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2025

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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE

In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who has come to them in the form of a tall headless man who gives them dark powers: they can steal people's happiness, they have performed unchristian acts, and they can cause pestilence or death. They are all in danger of the stake.

The Wax Child, narrated by a wax doll created by Christenze Kruckow, is an unsettling horror story about brutality and power, nature and witchcraft, set in the fragile communities of premodern Europe.

Deeply researched and steeped in visceral, atmospheric detail, The Wax Child is based on a series of real witchcraft trials that took place in Northern Jutland in the seventeenth century. Full of lush storytelling and alarmingly rich imagination, Olga Ravn also weaves in quotes from original sources such as letters, magical spells and manuals, court documents, and Scandinavian grimoires.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Olga Ravn (born 1986) is a Danish novelist and poet. In collaboration with Danish publisher Gyldendal she edited a selection of Tove Ditlevsen's texts and books that relaunched Ditlevsen's readership worldwide. Her novel The Employees was on the shortlist for the Booker Prize in 2021, and The Wax Child was on the longlist for the Booker International Prize and the shortlist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Translation in 2026.

 

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An astounding, haunting tale of accused witches-a book of sorcery itself-from the celebrated author of The Employees and My Work

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0811238830
ISBN 13 
9780811238830
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
176
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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