{"product_id":"death-in-her-hands-ottessa-moshfegh","title":"Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHer name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession: who was Magda and how did she meet her fate?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Booker-shortlisted author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEileen\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecomes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterclass in suspense.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEconomist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoshfegh is one of the most original and astute young novelists working today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e -- Orlando Bird ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoutinely hailed as one of the most exciting young American authors working today...\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHer work takes dirty realism and makes it filthier. But it is is also beautiful...t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehe depravity of her material matched by the purity and precision of her prose.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e -- Lisa Allardice ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eOttessa Moshfegh's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeath in Her Hands\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a new kind of murder mystery... The work of a writer who is, like Henry James or Vladimir Nabokov, touched by both genius and cruelty... Like a surgeon, or a serial killer, Moshfegh flenses her characters, and her readers, until all that's left is a void. It's the amused contemplation of that void that gives rise to the dark exhilaration of her work -- its wayward beauty, its comedy, and its horror\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. -- Kevin Power ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuch more than a whodunnit... This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery... Moshfegh is as wise and wild as Ali Smith or Rebecca Solnit, and as gifted a scribe of nature as Annie Dillard or Thoreau.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e -- Melissa Katsoulis ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOttessa Moshfegh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a fiction writer from New England. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEileen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN\/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMy Year of Rest and Relaxation\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDeath in Her Hands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, her second and third novels, were \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebestsell­ers. She is also the author of the short story collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHomesick for Another World\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand a novella, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMcGlue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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