Paradise Rot

Paradise Rot:A Novel

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The instant cult classic from the incomparable Jenny Hval

"As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder."
Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive as the days pass. Jo’s sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.

This debut novel from a critically adored artist and musician presents a heady and hypersensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.

Reviews

  • In Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval creates a parallel world that’s familiar but subtly skewed. As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder.

    Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
  • A lurid hothouse of a thriller about a female student’s sexual awakening

    Sukhdev SandhuGuardian
  • A sensual, putrid reimagining of the original sin that explores the dynamics between two young women … [a] striking debut novel … To read Paradise Rot is to inhabit one of Hval’s eerie, theory-conscious soundscapes. As in a dream, the closeness of this world to our own and its simultaneous uncanny otherness, awash with potent symbolism, leaves us looking at everything anew. It took nine years to be translated into English; I only hope we needn’t wait so long for the two other books, already published in Norwegian, from this talented polymath

    Financial Times