The Vivisectors - Missouri Williams - diskuze

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026‘A novel to marvel at’ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH‘Astonishing’ MICHAEL MAGEE‘Like Karl Ove Knausgaard at the end of the world’ SUNDAY TIMESThe acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a darkly beautiful novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other.In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by vegetation, where power is held in a fragile balance between the academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, Agathe spends her days listlessly propping up the career of her fraudulent professor boss. One day, a campus scandal erupts: Adam, a contrarian and the pet student of her boss, comes into heated conflict with a rising young professor, with both men claiming discrimination.As the crisis consumes the university, Agathe’s boss instructs her to gather information by befriending Adam. Agathe soon finds herself both caught up in the events tearing the city apart and increasingly drawn towards the alluring student at the heart of it all. But can anyone be taken at their word in a struggle over the truth?Coursing with icy suspense and rendered with violent precision, The Vivisectors is a new kind of love story for a broken era and a novel of blazing spiritual reckoning.One of the most talked about books of 2026, as seen in the Sunday Times, Guardian, Times, Observer, BBC, New York Times, New Yorker and many more.‘Genuinely experimental, relentlessly and rollickingly told’ BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES 2026‘Sin
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