![]() ![]() ![]() It’s been really hard to care about a lot of stuff since. ![]() I’m still recovering from the numbness that the ending left me with. I also felt compelled to write in the third person – I’d spent so many books occupying a first-person point of view and in lockdown I didn’t want to be in my own consciousness or the consciousness of a single character. I guess I had a thought about plagues and that moved my imagination into the middle ages. It’s not like I plan to write novels they come to me and I obey. I didn’t expect to write Lapvona but Covid-19 changed things and I wanted to write about how weird everything suddenly was. Weren’t you writing a different novel, about Chinese immigrants in 20th-century San Francisco? ![]() Moshfegh, born in New England to Croatian and Iranian parents, spoke from her home in Pasadena, California. Her latest novel, Lapvona, now out in paperback, is named after its fictitious setting, a medieval eastern European hamlet rife with rape, murder and cannibalism. O ttessa Moshfegh, 41, is the author of six works of fiction, including her Booker-shortlisted noir Eileen (2016), soon to be released as a film starring Anne Hathaway, and My Year of Rest and Relaxation, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome book prize in 2019. ![]()
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