Bøger af Lucas Rijneveld

I thought about being too small for so much, but that no one told you when you were big enough, how many centimetres on the doorpost that was, and I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit.

Sommeren 2005. I en lille hollandsk landsby er den 49-årige dyrlæge Kurt blevet fuldstændig forblændet af nabogårdens 14-årige datter. Et følsomt, trist barn med en vild fantasi, som længes efter opmærksomhed – en mand som ovenikøbet har samme navn som hendes idol. Han vinder hendes fortrolighed, og snart vokser noget, der ligner et venskab, frem. Kurt lytter fortryllet til hendes historier om alt, hvad der sker i hendes liv: musik, tab, venner og drenge. I en hypnotisk ordstrøm suges læseren ind i dette skrigende skæve forhold. For det er Kurt, der fører ordet, og igennem sprækkerne i hans fortælling, siver en anden frem: fortællingen om et overgreb. En rystende smuk og grum fortælling om en dyrlæge og hans udvalgte, om en ensom mand og hans destruktive lidenskab og en ung kvindes rastløse længsel efter at høre til. Lucas Rijneveld (f. 1991) voksede op i en stærkt kristen landbofamilie i Nordbrabrant og vandt den internationale Bookerpris for sin debutroman Aftenens ubehag som den yngste nogensinde.

A harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International PrizeA confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his "Favorite"-the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy's body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life.Narrated after the veterinarian has been punished for his crimes, Rijneveld's audacious, profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose, which holds the reader fast to the page. Rijneveld refracts the contours of the Lolita story with a kind of perverse glee, taking the reader into otherwise unimaginable spaces full of pop lyrics, horror novels, the Favorite's fantasized conversations with Freud and Hitler, and her dreams of flight and destruction and transcendence.An unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms, My Heavenly Favorite establishes Rijneveld as one of the most daring and brilliant writers on the world stage.