PARADISE ROT:
A Novel

by Jenny Hval.

Translated from Norwegian to English by Marjam Idriss.

London/New York: Verso, (2018).

First edition in English, first printing; trade paperback original.

"This English language edition first published by Verso 2018" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page, £9.99/$16.95 printed to the inner flap.

Originally published in Norwegian in 2009 as PERLEBRYGGERIET.

The first novel by the poet and multi-award-winning experimental folk and avant-garde musician of the albums 'Apocalypse Girl' and 'Blood Bitch'.

Drawing on her own life experiences going to Australia to study creative writing and performance at the University of Melbourne, Hval features a young woman moving to Australia, dealing with a strange roommate, and working in a brewery, the story spiced with surreal images of mushrooms, rotting fruits, and other skewed visions of life growing, dying and changing.

Fine, firm, square, very tight and probably unread in matte-laminated stiff card wraps with french-fold inner flaps, wraparound floating mushroom, flower and moth cover art designed by Chloe Schaffe, mauve and violet titles to the spine; original printed £9.99/$16.95 prices still intact to the front inner flap.
NO remainder mark.

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