Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona follows the life of Marek, a 13-year-old peasant boy who lives in a cruel world of sadism and stink, cannibalism and self-flagellation.
Nineteen-year-old poet Leila Mottley has been hailed as the voice of a generation , a claim that seems less hyperbolic the more you read of her assured, moving and powerful fiction debut