My Men, Victoria Kielland
My Men, Victoria Kielland
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My Men

Author: Victoria Kielland, Damion Searls

Narrator: Mia Barron

Unabridged: 4 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/27/2023


Synopsis

Based on the true story of Norwegian maid turned Midwestern farmwife Belle Gunness, the first female serial killer in American history. My Men is a fictional account of one broken woman’s descent into inescapable madness.

Among thousands of other Norwegian immigrants seeking freedom, Brynhild Størset emigrated to the American Upper Midwest in the late nineteenth century, changing her name and her life. As Bella, later Belle Gunness, she came in search of not only fortune and true faith but, most of all, love.

From Victoria Kielland, a rising star of Norwegian literature, comes My Men, a literary reimagining of the harrowing true story of Belle Gunness, who slowly but irreversibly turned to senseless murder for release from her pain, becoming America’s first known female serial killer. In pursuit of her American
dream, Kielland’s Belle grows increasingly alienated, ruthless, and perversely compelling.Raw, visceral, and altogether hypnotic, My Men is a brutal yet radically empathetic glimpse into the world of a woman consumed by desire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jasmine

My Men by Victoria Kielland is translated from the Norwegian and is based on the true story of a female serial killer named Brynhild Gunness. In 1876, seventeen-year-old Brynhild fell in love with a wealthy older man. When Brynhild learns how cruel and abusive he is, she moves to America to join her......more

Goodreads review by Michał

Przez swą formę na pewno nie jest to książka łatwa ani dla każdego. Ale to ta forma (TO TŁUMACZENIE!) doskonale oddające sposób myślenia osoby zaburzonej, jest też największą zaletą tej książki.......more

Goodreads review by David

Partial insight to the life of a lonely woman who was seeking acceptance, seeking love. But a feeling of not belonging, being rejected, sees Belle turning more and more for guidance from God. Sadly that does not materialise and the story reads like you’re in the exhausting mind of someone whose menta......more