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Paradise Rot

By Jenny Hval & Marjam Idriss
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Publisher Description

"As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder.”
—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo’s sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.

2500 Reviews

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“Quite beautiful in writing and character. I love this style of description over dialogue. The constant rotation of rot, mold, moisture, seas, water and fluids (fluids) is so excellent.”
Thinking Face“It’s weird and with the flow of the writing, it borders on untrustworthy narrator whose hyper-fixations take over the text. It is definitely a book to take your time and reread to understand.”

About Jenny Hval

Norwegian musician and writer Jenny Hval has honed an intellectual and uncompromising view of politics and sexuality in her prose as well as in records that include Blood Bitch; Apocalypse, Girl; and Innocence Is Kinky. Paradise Rot is the first of her books to appear in English.

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Marjam Idriss

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