Marek weathers his father’s abuse through his devotion to God and the soothing of the village wet nurse, Ina, but his piety doesn’t keep him from committing brutal acts of his own. Villiam’s distant relative, Jude, is a shepherd who beats his son, Marek, and lies about the fate of Marek’s supposedly deceased mother.
Its ruler is the loutish Villiam, who engineers massacres of Lapvona’s inhabitants whenever dissent grows, and also steals their water during a deadly drought. The book is set in the eponymous medieval village, a place beset by violence and extreme cruelty. Author Ottessa Moshfegh returns to speak to Kate Wolf about her latest novel, Lapvona.
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