Girls Against God (Å hate Gud)

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Girls Against God (Å hate Gud)

Girls Against God (Å hate Gud)

Name: Girls Against God (Å hate Gud)
ISBN: 9781788738972

Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss (translation)

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In Norway, a woman researches a film script based on her country’s history with black metal. This in turn unlocks her own memories of black metal, right-wing Christian repression, & connections with her country’s history of folk horror, among other things. The narrator forms a band with several other women wishing to rebel against the oppression they feel, leading them to create their own weird ritual magic, blending art & fiction & the occult.

Against this backdrop is Hval’s own exploration of black metal, Norwegian history, social ills, art, music, the ideas of band as ritual & ritual group, & the links–both hidden & otherwise–between those things.

Hval’s work is abstract, flipping back & forth between critical discussion & goth-feminist narrative, but it’s always striking, with the trio of protagonists drowning everyone in “pus porridge” from thousands of junk emails & the narrator writing herself & her bandmates into the past.

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Norwegian musician & writer Jenny Hval has honed an intellectual & uncompromising view of politics & sexuality in her prose as well as in records that include Blood Bitch; Apocalypse, Girl; & Innocence Is Kinky. Paradise Rot is the first of her books to appear in English.