Synopsis
‘Profane, funny, and uncomfortably honest' – Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life
Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love.
He is older and beautiful, a Derrida-quoting intellectual.
He is also a serial cheater, gaslighter and narcissist.
Lilja will do anything to hold on to him.
And so she accepts his deceptions and endures his sexual desires. She rationalizes his toxic behaviour and permits him to cross...
Details
09 June 2022208 pages
9781529045550Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Magma is profane, funny, and uncomfortably honest about what happens when we substitute someone’s image of us for self-knowledge.Brandon Taylor, Vulture
A compulsive, propulsive debut about a young woman’s exploration of love and sex . . . Thora Hjörleifsdóttir’s narrator pulls us into the tale of her near undoing and her struggle to find her own value.Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers
A luminous and poetic novel . . . How to describe the slow escalation by which possession becomes control, and power abuse? [Hjörleifsdóttir] has created a whole new landscape for storytelling.John Freeman, author of How to Read a Novelist
A novel that speaks directly to its present age . . . An incredibly compelling bookIceland National Radio
