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The Wax Child

English · Hardback

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''Olga Ravn is a master and an alchemist. There''s nobody else doing quite what she does'' Samantha Harvey It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet - it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper. It sees how, in the candlelight, she gazes with love at her friends, and hears the things they say in the shadows. It knows pine forest, misty fjord and the crackle of the burning pyre. It observes the violence in men''s eyes and the cruelty of their laws. In time, it begins to understand that once a suspicion of witchcraft has taken hold, it can prove impossible to shake... Based on an infamous seventeenth century Danish witch trial, ''I gulped ''Dark and strange and beautiful and completely gripping'' Mark Haddon ''

Product details

Authors Olga Ravn
Assisted by Aitken Martin (Translation)
Publisher Viking
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 06.11.2025
 
EAN 9780241752746
ISBN 978-0-241-75274-6
No. of pages 144
Dimensions 132 mm x 204 mm x 25 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Denmark, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Horror, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Horror and supernatural fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Denmark

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