Just finished Olga #Tokarczuk's 'Empusion', her first #novel since winning the Nobel prize.
A magical, intoxicating, even addictive read, with such literary beauty as I've rarely found in a novel, much less a novel that cheekily mixes quirky intellectual caricatures with good old folk #horror
Saying anything more might spoil the experience: best to discover its joys without knowing too much in advance!
@bookstodon Like all the best of #horror, the novel confronts us with what we are suppressing and denying. But it doesn't preach, it coolly describes, dissects, and acknowledges. This is an eery novel about big topics and small pleasures, dualism and food, God and demons, walks in the woods and men debating women
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