β Scribed by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
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ONE OF VOGUE'S TOP FIVE DEBUTS OF 2020
ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S HIGHLIGHTS OF 2020****
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S TOP TEN BEST NEW BOOKS IN TRANSLATION
The sensationalDutch bestseller:Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait ofa Dutch farming family distorted by grief, translated byMichele Hutchison.
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I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.'
Jas lives with her devout farming family in the rural Netherlands. One winter's day, her older brother joins an ice skating trip; resentful at being left alone, she makes a perverse plea to God; he never returns. As grief overwhelms the farm, Jas succumbs to a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies, watching her family disintegrate into a darkness that threatens to derail them all.
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