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WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE, THE SWISS BOOK PRIZE AND THE JURGEN PONTO LITERATURE PRIZE 'So powerful . . . [a novel] about what it means to be human in a gendered, classist, and sexist world' Times Literary Supplement 'Formally adventurous' New York Times 'Everything...
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The sensational international bestseller.
A radical exploration of memory and identity by one of Europe's most prodigious contemporary writers.
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WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE, THE SWISS BOOK PRIZE AND THE JURGEN PONTO LITERATURE PRIZE
'So powerful . . . [a novel] about what it means to be human in a gendered, classist, and sexist world' Times Literary Supplement
'Formally adventurous' New York Times
'Everything about it is fantastic' Die Welt
'One can only marvel' Die Zeit
'An important new voice for a new form of writing' Tages-Anzeiger
As their grandmother slides into dementia, an unnamed narrator begins to question the silence that shrouds their family. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past - one that winds back generations, leading towards nature, witchcraft, freedom. Could this be where they belong?
Bold and expansive, Blood Book is an astounding quest for liberation, and a mesmerising exploration of who we are.
Published in the US as Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399731447
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Illustration: N/A
Contributors:
- Translated by Jamie Lee Searle
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 240g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Kim de l'Horizon is a novelist, performer, and playwright, born in 2666 on Gethen, a planet much freer than this one. Their debut novel, Blood Book, won the German Book Prize, the Swiss Book Prize and the Jurgen Ponto Foundation Prize. It has been translated into seventeen languages and was an international bestseller.
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