Ottessa Moshfegh

Now a major motion picture streaming on Hulu, starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize "Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious. Its first-person narrator is one of the strangest, most messed-up, most pathetic--and yet, in her own inimitable way, endearing--misfits I've encountered in fiction. Trust me, you have never read anything remotely like Eileen." --Washington Post So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes--a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen's story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.

“Så vidt, så godt. Mit navn var Eileen Dunlop. Nu kender du mig … Det her er historien om, hvordan jeg forsvandt.” Julen bringer ikke meget glæde til Eileen, en ensom ung kvinde, der er fanget mellem rollen som sin alkoholiske fars hjælper, og et job som sekretær i et drenge-fængsel. Opslugt af bitterhed og selvhad fylder Eileen dagene med perverse fantasier og drømme om at stikke af til storbyen. Imens fylder hun aftenerne og weekenderne ud med butikstyveri, at stalke den veltrænede fængselsbetjent, Randy, og med at rydde op efter sin stadigt mere sindsforvirrede far. Da den begavede, smukke og livlige Rebecca Saint John dukker op som den nye vejleder i fængslet, tryllebindes Eileen og er ikke i stand til at modstå det, der virker til at være et mirakuløst spirende venskab. Men Eileens hengivenhed for Rebecca ender med at gøre hende medvirkende til en forbrydelse, der overgår hendes vildeste forestillinger. Den unge Eileens historie er fortalt gennem den nu meget ældre fortællers perspektiv. Uhyggeligt betagende og drabeligt sjovt. Denne bog er oversat af Louise Ardenfelt Ravnild.

»Gnistrande litteratur. Som få andra lyckas Ottessa Moshfegh skildra livet som en trång och smutsig bur, och samtidigt få mig att frusta av skratt.« Johanna Frid, DN »Eileen är en romanhjältinna som saknar motstycke.« Anna Lundvik, Sydsvenskan »Eileen är en häpnadsväckande roman, rakt igenom mörk och överraskande.« Washington PostDet är inte mycket med julen som gör Eileen Dunlop särskilt glad. Hon är en försynt men djupt bekymrad ung kvinna fångad mellan rollen som sin alkoholiserade pappas vårdare och ett dagjobb som sekreterare på Moorehead, ett ungdomsfängelse för pojkar, fullt av sina egna vardagliga fasor. Eileen håller på att förtäras av bitterhet och självförakt, och kompenserar sina dystra dagar med perversa fantasier och drömmar om att fly till storstaden. Samtidigt fyller hon sina nätter och helger med snattande och med att förfölja en fängelsevakt vid namn Randy. När den smarta, snygga och gladlynta Rebecca Saint John dyker upp som Mooreheads nya kurator blir Eileen hänförd och lyckas inte motstå det som till en början framstår som en mirakulös, knoppande vänskap. I en Hitchcockartad vändning drar hennes tillgivenhet för Rebecca slutligen in henne i ett brott som går bortom hennes vildaste föreställningar. OTTESSA MOSHFEGH är en amerikansk författare från New England, vars noveller har publicerats i The Paris Review och The New Yorker och för vilka hon fått flera priser. Eileen är hennes första roman, som hyllats unisont i den engelskspråkiga pressen. Boken har vunnit en PEN/Hemingway Award i kategorin »Bästa debutroman« och nominerats till både Man Booker Prize och National Book Critics Circle Award.» Originell, modig, mästerlig.« The Guardian »Fullmatad med välformulerade meningar jag vill minnas. Moshfegh tar mig som läsare som gisslan.« Karenina.se

»Gnistrande litteratur. Som få andra lyckas Ottessa Moshfegh skildra livet som en trång och smutsig bur, och samtidigt få mig att frusta av skratt.« Johanna Frid, DN »Eileen är en romanhjältinna som saknar motstycke.« Anna Lundvik, Sydsvenskan »Eileen är en häpnadsväckande roman, rakt igenom mörk och överraskande.« Washington PostDet är inte mycket med julen som gör Eileen Dunlop särskilt glad. Hon är en försynt men djupt bekymrad ung kvinna fångad mellan rollen som sin alkoholiserade pappas vårdare och ett dagjobb som sekreterare på Moorehead, ett ungdomsfängelse för pojkar, fullt av sina egna vardagliga fasor. Eileen håller på att förtäras av bitterhet och självförakt, och kompenserar sina dystra dagar med perversa fantasier och drömmar om att fly till storstaden. Samtidigt fyller hon sina nätter och helger med snattande och med att förfölja en fängelsevakt vid namn Randy. När den smarta, snygga och gladlynta Rebecca Saint John dyker upp som Mooreheads nya kurator blir Eileen hänförd och lyckas inte motstå det som till en början framstår som en mirakulös, knoppande vänskap. I en Hitchcockartad vändning drar hennes tillgivenhet för Rebecca slutligen in henne i ett brott som går bortom hennes vildaste föreställningar. OTTESSA MOSHFEGH är en amerikansk författare från New England, vars noveller har publicerats i The Paris Review och The New Yorker, och för vilka hon fått flera priser. Eileen är hennes första roman, som hyllats unisont i den engelskspråkiga pressen. Boken har vunnit en PEN/Hemingsway Award i kategorin »Bästa debutroman« och nominerats till Man Booker Prize och National Books Critics Circle Award.» Originell, modig, mästerlig.« The Guardian »Fullmatad med välformulerade meningar jag vill minnas. Moshfegh tar mig som läsare som gisslan.« Karenina.se

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016*Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city.

Now a major motion picture streaming on Hulu, starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize "Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious. Its first-person narrator is one of the strangest, most messed-up, most pathetic--and yet, in her own inimitable way, endearing--misfits I've encountered in fiction. Trust me, you have never read anything remotely like Eileen." --Washington Post So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes--a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen's story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.

Retro 4 is the latest collection of the best, the funniest, the strangest, and the most affecting stories from the award winning literary magazine, Joyland.

Ny roman av författaren till Ett år av vila och avkoppling»Ottessa Moshfegh är utan jämförelse den mest intressanta samtida amerikanska författaren.« The New YorkerI en medeltida by någonstans i Europa, härjad av svält och naturkatastrofer, växer den moderlöse herdepojken Marek upp under sin fars hårda hand. Hans enda trygghet är den blinda barnmorskan Ina, som inte bara har vårdat generationer av byns barn utan också besitter en mystisk förmåga att förstå naturens dolda krafter. I översättning av Jessica Hallén. OTTESSA MOSHFEGH är en amerikansk författare. Hennes första roman, Eileen [2015] hyllades unisont i pressen, vann en PEN Hemingway Award i kategorin »Bästa debutroman« och nominerades till Bookerpriset. Ett år av vila och avkoppling [2018], valdes till en av årets bästa böcker av New York Times. I den suggestiva romanen Lapvona utforskar Ottessa Moshfegh civilisationens mörkaste vrår och de krafter som styr våra liv.» Lapvona förtjänar all uppmärksamhet den fått - och mer därtill.« i-D

Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women’s weird fiction.'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' The TimesWhile on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body. Shaky 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? From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen comes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth. The Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the dark heart of the uncanny with disturbing, and disturbed, protagonists who dare to defy the norm. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in. __________________________PRAISE FOR DEATH IN HER HANDS:'Routinely hailed as one of the most exciting young American authors working today' Guardian'A new kind of murder mystery' New Yorker 'Dark, devious' Observer'A fine line between shocking realism and the absurd' New Statesman'A brilliant off-kilter detective story' Evening Standard'A beautiful novel' Sunday Times

El libro que ha inspirado una adaptaci n pr ximamente en cines, con las actuaci n de Thomasin McKenzie y Anne Hathaway. Dirigido por William Oldroyd. Un thriller espeluznante, hipn tico y divertido. Una primera novela poderosa, que cautiva y perturba al lector. La voz de Ottessa Moshfegh irrumpe con fuerza en las letras norteamericanas. Recuerda este nombre: Eileen. La Navidad ofrece muy poco a Eileen Dunlop, una chica modesta y perturbada atrapada entre su papel de cuidadora de un padre alcoh lico y su empleo administrativo en Moorehead, un correccional de menores cargado de horrores cotidianos. Eileen templa sus tristes d as con fantas as perversas y sue a con huir a una gran ciudad. Mientras tanto, llena sus noches con peque os hurtos en la tienda local, espiando a Randy, un ingenuo y musculoso guardia del reformatorio, y limpiando los desastres que su padre deja en casa. Cuando la brillante, guapa y alegre Rebecca Saint John hace su aparici n como nueva directora educativa de Moorehead, Eileen es incapaz de resistirse a esa milagrosa e incipiente amistad. Pero en un giro digno de Hitchcock, el cari o de Eileen por Rebecca la convierte en c mplice de un crimen. Mi nombre era Eileen ha sido ganador del prestigioso Premio PEN/Hemingway al mejor debut literario, nominado al Man Booker Prize 2016 y uno de los mejores libros del a o. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The book that inspired the adapted film, starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway. Directed by William Oldroyd. Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour. So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes--a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen's story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.

Dive into this gloriously sordid story of love and murder on the high seas. Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, 1851: McGlue is down in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name, situation or orientation – but he has blood on his hands. He may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. As the ship makes its voyage home to Salem, Massachusetts, intolerable memory accompanies reluctant sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.'One of America's most exciting - and most provocative - young novelists' Financial Times'You’re in safe, if sticky, hands... A wild ride' The Times

Ganadora del Fence Modern Prize y del Believer Book Award, la despiadada novela de debut de la autora del fen meno Mi a o de descanso y relajaci n: «Todo un viaje (The Times) **LIBRO DE LA SEMANA POR ABRIL** UNO DE LOS LIBROS M S ESPERADOS DE 2024 POR LA VANGUARDIA «Posiblemente la autora estadounidense m s interesante de su poca . -The New York Times Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue, marinero rudo, tramposo y canalla, nos habla desde la bodega mugrienta del barco en la que est retenido, en un estado de embriaguez intermitente que vuelve la realidad ambigua. Divaga entre recuerdos borrosos y teje una fina l nea entre la niebla del alcohol y las trampas de la memoria. Es posible que haya matado a un hombre, y que ese hombre fuera su mejor amigo. Ahora, solo quiere un trago para acallar las aterradoras sombras que acompa an a su indeseada sobriedad. A medio camino entre un cuento de piratas y un western, la primera novela que escribi Ottessa Moshfegh huele a v mito, sangre, p lvora, whisky, sal, sudor y madera vieja, y demuestra que desde el principio supo ser nihilista y superlativa. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The debut novella from one of contemporary fiction's most exciting young voices, now in a new edition. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection. They said I've done something wrong? . . . And they've just left me down here to starve. They'll see this inanition and be so damned they'll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . .: the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I'll pat their heads and nod. I'll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.

Av författaren till den hyllade Ett år av vila och avkoppling»Alla noveller i Hemlängtan till en annan värld är små mästerverk. Det är till och med det bästa jag läst i år. Moshfegh är så oerhört skicklig på att snabbt dra in läsaren i berättarens sanning.« Annika Wall, Borås Tidning»Hemlängtan till en annan värld är ett suktande kärleksbrev till friheten.« Sandra Stiskalo, DN»Det finns en gränslöshet i Moshfeghs skrivande, en gränslöshet som är frigörande. Den kunde kallas omoralisk; den kunde också kallas djupt mänsklig, ett resultat av en författare som läst av och förstått sin omgivning.« Björn Kohlström, BernurMed berättelser som är samtidigt oroande, groteska, medkännande och underhållande visar Ottessa Moshfegh med stor skärpa upp det mänskliga självbedrägeriets spektrum. Hennes karaktärer är alla mer eller mindre ostadiga på fötterna. De längtar på sina olika sätt efter samhörighet och bättring, men med sin osäkerhet och sina primitiva impulser sätter de nästan alltid krokben för sig själva. Hemlängtan till en annan värld [Homesick for Another World] är Ottessa Moshfeghs första novellsamling. Den kom ut två år efter hennes mycket uppmärksammade debutroman Eileen, och ges nu för första gången ut på svenska, i översättning av Helena Fagertun. OTTESSA MOSHFEGH är en amerikansk författare från New England. Hennes första roman, Eileen, hyllades unisont i pressen, vann en PEN Hemingway Award i kategorin »Bästa debutroman« och nominerades till både Man Booker Prize och National Book Critics Circle Award. Hennes Ett år av vila och avkoppling [My Year of Rest and Relaxation, 2018], valdes till en av årets bästa böcker av New York Times.» Är som att ta på ett elektriskt staket.« New York Times »Kommer att bränna dig som en blåslampa.« John Waters»Visar upp Ottessa Moshfeghs mästerskap med hjälp av en uppsjö bisarra karaktärer.« Time

"A ferocious comedy of middle-class dysfunction . . . published to controversy in 1973 . . . A masterpiece." --Claire Allfree, The Telegraph When Dinah pooke's second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as "squalid and startling," "nastily horrific," and a "monstrous parody" of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day--like the hero of Joseph Conrad's classic Lord Jim--commits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question. Out of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), Lord Jim at Home reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, pooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty "in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand."

An Instant New York Times Bestseller "Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don't want to live in, but from which you can't look away." --The Atlantic In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community's faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek's few consola­tions is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some people, Ina's ability to receive trans­missions of sacred knowledge from the natural world is a godsend. For others, Ina's home in the woods is a godless place. The people's desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by their depraved lord and governor, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord's family, new and occult forces arise to upset the old order. By year's end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, and the natural world and the spirit world will prove to be very thin indeed.