The Wax Child - Softcover

Ravn, Olga

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811240878 ISBN 13: 9780811240871

Verlag: Norton & Company, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who comes to them as a tall headless man and gives them dark powers: they steal happiness, perform unchristian acts, and cause pestilence or even death. The women are all in danger of the stake. 

Narrated by a wax doll created by Kruckow, the novel is an unsettling horror story about brutality, friendship, power, nature, and witchcraft, set in the fragile communities of premodern Europe. Based on a series of real witchcraft trials that took place in northern Jutland, The Wax Child is layered with rich atmospheric details and quotes from original sources, such as letters, magic spells, court documents, and Scandinavian grimoires.

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Olga Ravn (born 1986) is a Danish novelist and poet. In collaboration with Danish publisher Gyldendal she edited a selection of Tove Ditlevsen's texts and books that relaunched Ditlevsen's readership worldwide. Her novel The Employees was on the shortlist for the Booker Prize in 2021, and The Wax Child was on the longlist for the Booker International Prize and the shortlist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Translation in 2026.

 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0811240878
• ISBN 13: 9780811240871
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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