Magma
lives up to its name.
He is on fire and blood.
Love is a fire.
Immense.
Uncontrollable.
Devastating.
The heart beats hard between the lines.
Under the tendons, the flesh and the marrow, the author digs his tongue.
She dissects his sentences.
It pushes the limits of meaning.
Do we have to suffer to love?
Since its release in Iceland,
Magma
has been a real bookstore success.
It has already been translated into eight languages, including French.
And that's a chance.
Because this novel, Thora Hjörleifsdottir’s first, is heartbreaking.
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Lilja, 20, is madly in love.
The man she adores is
“handsome and intelligent”
.
He is an intellectual who knows everything about Derrida.
On paper, the man seems perfect, but in reality, he is unfaithful.
Every night he sleeps with an ex.
Lilja thinks it's her fault.
“If I were better, I would be enough for him.”
She feels pathetic, stupid, ugly.
And this boyfriend who refuses to be one does nothing to disabuse her.
Worse, he humiliates her.
He objectifies it, reduces it…
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