Girls Against God, Jenny Hval
Girls Against God, Jenny Hval
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Girls Against God
A Novel

Author: Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss

Narrator: Gabrielle Baker

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/27/2021

Synopsis

A genre-warping, time-traveling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson.

Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-traveling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic.

About Jenny Hval

Norwegian writer and musician Jenny Hval has honed an intellectual and uncompromising view of politics and sexuality in her prose as well as in records that include Blood Bitch, Apocalypse, Girl, and Innocence Is Kinky. Her debut novel, Paradise Rot, was published to acclaim in 2018.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barry

yo wtf. norwegian black metal george bataille shit no idea what i just read. 5 stars. wouldnt recommend......more

Goodreads review by Lark

I was exhilarated by this work. I'm not sure what it is. Is it a poem? An essay? A barbaric yawp? I moved forward through the text cautiously, not knowing how to protect myself from my own wild thoughts bouncing off the words on the page. I pretty much loved it. I was confused by it. I was annoyingl......more

Goodreads review by Blair

Girls Against God starts as the impassioned monologue of a young woman. Our narrator is from the south of Norway, and detests its bland traditions – 'white taciturn gruel' – and Christian values. As for what she hates most, it's a toss-up between God and the 'broken', 'wet' accent of the region, 'fi......more

Goodreads review by Alexander

A novel consisting of a seemingly endless train of thoughts of the main character. There's some beautiful writing in there, but I found it quite a slog to get through. I do like me an experimental novel, but this one didn't do it for me. (Received an ARC through NetGalley)......more

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