The Wax Child

''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