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The Wax child / Olga Ravn ; translated from Danish by Martin Aitken. - London : Penguin Viking, 2025. - [4], 183, [1] strona ; 21 cm.

Author

Ravn Olga (1986- ). Autor Aitken Martin. Tłumaczenie

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura duńska

Subject

Kobieta Polowanie na czarownice Prześladowanie Procesy o czary Dania

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Powieść

Książka w języku angielskim. 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, "The wax child" is the extraordinary new novel from Olga Ravn: a mesmerising, frightening vision of a time when witches and magic were as real to the human mind as soil and seawater.

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Notes:

Tytuł oryginału: Voksbarnet, 2023

Awards note

The International Booker Prize 2026 Longlisted