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Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas.
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Pedophilia -- Fiction.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Fiction.
Child sexual abuse -- Fiction.
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Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas.
Pedophilia -- Fiction.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Fiction.
Child sexual abuse -- Fiction.
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My
heavenly
favorite
: a
novel
/ Lucas Rijneveld ; translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison.
by
Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas.
Graywolf Press, 2024.
Call #:
FICTION RIJ
Subjects
Pedophilia -- Fiction.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Fiction.
Child sexual abuse -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781644452738 (hc.)
Description:
330 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Dutch.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"A dairy farm, again, provides the mordant backdrop for trauma in Dutch poet Rijneveld's startling second
novel
exploring loss, escape, and boundaries. An unnamed middle-aged veterinarian recounts his version of the ill-fated relationship he cultivated with a 14-year-old girl with whom he was (and is) enamored. The unnamed idealized girl becomes, in disturbing and violent ways, the focus of his fantasies and actions over the course of the summer of 2005. A complex character, the girl--who refers to herself as Little Bird--is quirky, misunderstood, prone to self-destructive fantasy, seemingly motherless and living in a stultifying household with her brother and father. Her and the veterinarian's relationship--on a complete collision course with the realistic and the appropriate--may be driven by his need to relive or reinvent his own youth, marred by unseemly sexual attention from his mother. Rijneveld (who won the 2020 International Booker Prize for a previous portrait of childhood trauma, The Discomfort of Evening, also translated by Hutchison) delivers the veterinarian's meandering soliloquy in the style of a Beat poem, with hypnotic effect, via page-long sentences and chapter-length paragraphs. Replete with references to pop culture, rock music, and current events, the fantastical account is grounded in real possibility, making it all the more menacing; this ogre is a neighbor, and he doesn't mind being referred to as Kurt (a la Cobain). Worse, he has found a receptive and needy audience, greedy for attention. His catalog of things he fantasizes about doing, and eventually does, to the object of his misdirected longings will evoke trigger warnings and debate from readers who, as scene after scene of predatory behavior unfolds, could be forgiven for feeling assaulted themselves. Nabakov's predator blamed his prey; Rijneveld's seeks to blame love."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Literary fiction.
Dutch fiction -- Translations into English.
Other authors:
Hutchison, Michele.
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