Two women arrive in a Spanish village, a dreamlike place caught between the desert and the ocean, seeking medical advice and salvation. One suffers from a mysterious illness: spontaneous paralysis confines her to a wheelchair. The other, her daughter Sofia, has spent years playing the reluctant detective, struggling to understand her mother’s illness. Surrounded by the oppressive desert heat and the mesmerising figures who move through it, Sofia waits while her mother undergoes the strange programme of treatments invented by Dr Gomez. Searching for a cure to a defiant and quite possibly imagined disease, ever more entangled in the seductive, mercurial games of those around her, Sofia finally comes to confront and reconcile the disparate fragments of her identity.
Hot Milk
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016
Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power – from the author of Swimming Home and The Man Who Saw Everything
‘Propulsive, uncanny, dreamlike. A feverish coming-of-age novel’ Daily Telegraph
‘A triumph of storytelling’ Literary Review
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‘Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor of a bar built on the beach. My laptop has all my life in it and knows more about me than anyone else. So what I am saying is that if it is broken, so am I . . .’
Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness and the doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous and controversial Dr Gomez – a man of questionable methods and motives. Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people who move through it, both women begin to see their lives clearly for the first time in years.
Through the opposing figures of mother and daughter, Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of womanhood. Dreamlike and utterly compulsive, Hot Milk is a delirious fairy tale of feminine potency, a story both modern and timeless.
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‘Perfectly crafted. So mesmerising that reading it is to be under a spell’ Independent on Sunday
‘Hot Milk treads a sweaty, sun-drenched path into the history books. A properly great novel’ Romola Garai
‘Hot Milk is an extraordinary novel, beautifully rich, vividly atmospheric and psychologically complex… Every man and woman should read it’ Bernardine Evaristo
‘Hypnotic… This novel has a transfixing gaze and a terrible sting that burns long after the final page is turned’ Observer
‘Terrific, sizzling with heat and sexuality . . . You devour it in one sitting’ Radio Times
Additional information
| Weight | 0.159 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.4 cm |
| Book_author | Levy, Deborah |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Imprint | Penguin Books |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 217 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | 1st paperback ed |
| Dewey | 823.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
