{"product_id":"girls-against-god-9781788738958","title":"Girls Against God","description":"\u003cb\u003eA genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJenny Hval's latest novel is a radical fusion of queer feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, writing and art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Strange and lyrical. Hval's writing is surreal and rich with the grotesque banalities of human existence.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The themes of alienation, queerness, and the unsettling nature of desire align Hval with modern mainstays like Chris Kraus, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Maggie Nelson.\" --\u003ci\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorwegian writer and musician\u003cb\u003e Jenny Hval\u003c\/b\u003e has honed an intellectual and uncompromising view of politics and sexuality in her prose as well as in records that include \u003ci\u003eBlood Bitch; Apocalypse, Girl\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eInnocence Is Kinky\u003c\/i\u003e. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eParadise Rot\u003c\/i\u003e, was published to acclaim in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50598799606034,"sku":"9781788738958","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5db8b7df-1d38-48ea-a161-c69d0ad30c25.jpg?v=1732191388","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/girls-against-god-9781788738958","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}