{"product_id":"my-heavenly-favourite-1","title":"My Heavenly Favourite","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSENSATIONAL WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''It''s been a long time since a novel has destroyed me like this . . . One of the boldest writers alive today.'' \u003cb\u003eMax Porter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A novel of exquisite discomfort and delicious poetry . . . Made me laugh and gasp . . . I''m in awe.'' \u003cb\u003eBrandon Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Rejuvenating, glorious, brilliant. A book about obsession with prose that obsessed me from the first line.''\u003cb\u003e Daisy Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the tempestuous summer of 2005, a local veterinarian becomes enraptured by a 14-year-old farmer’s daughter – his ‘favourite’ – as he tends her father’s cows. This deeply troubled soul is our narrator: a man who believes he offers the object of his love a tantalizing path out of the constrictions of her conservative rural life, a chance to escape to a world of fantasy. But the obsessive reliance he cultivates builds into a terrifying trap, with a crime and confession at the heart of it that threatens to rip their small community apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unflinching excavation of taboos and social norms, \u003ci\u003eMy Heavenly Favourite\u003c\/i\u003e is a torrent of grief and obsession. The remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation, \u003ci\u003eThe Discomfort of Evening, \u003c\/i\u003ethis profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose, which holds the reader fast to the page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Michele Hutchison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis novel is about an adult who is sexually attracted to a minor and contains sexual violence.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305418629502,"sku":"NW9780571375493","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571375493.jpg?v=1778526200","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/my-heavenly-favourite-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}