Tender Morsels - Hardcover

Lanagan, Margo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224089668 ISBN 13: 9780224089661

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2009

Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old Liga, emotionally and physically battered from bearing two children, one begot through incest, the other through rape, is magically granted her own heaven, a gentle, patient version of the rough world she once knew. Here there are no brutal fathers, no leering village boys; there is only a beautiful little cottage in the middle of a wood. Here she brings up her two daughters, fair Branza and dark Urdda, in perfect peace. But the membrane between Liga's heaven and the real world has grown thin over the years, allowing some who are not as pure-hearted as Liga and her daughters to enter. And likewise, the girls discover they can pass through into the real world of Liga's tortured past. Now, having known heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side? "Tender Morsels" is an astonishing novel, fraught with the tension between beauty and horror, violence and tenderness.

About this title

About the Author

Margo Lanagan's novels and short story collections have excited readers the world over, and won many prizes, including four World Fantasy Awards - for 'Singing My Sister Down' (Best Short Fiction, 2005), Black Juice (Best Collection, 2005), Tender Morsels (Best Novel, 2009), and Sea-Hearts (Best Novella, 2010).

She lives in Sydney, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224089668
• ISBN 13: 9780224089661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496