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Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 48 No. 2
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Recommended by Liv
The Wax Child - the narrator of this novel - gives their account of a 17th-century witch trial and bears testament to human folly, the persecution of women and the solidarity of these “victims of untruth”. Ravn's novel reads like one long incantation – it's deeply unsettling and eery – but there's also a sense of humour rooted in its irony.
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Translated by Martin AitkenShortlisted for the International Booker Prize, The Employees is one of the most beloved and influential science fiction novels of the twenty-first century'I was obsessed from the first page to the…
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