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Max Porter effortlessly combines England's mysterious past and its confounding present in this enchanting and devastating story.
Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here, such as the boy Lanny and his family. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to them all.
" I suspect Lanny will be a novel I will return to again, simply to absorb the strangeness of the story, the cleverness of the structure, the authenticity of the dialogue and the ethereal mystery that surrounds the book’s titular character. For those who are put off by experimental fiction, and I confess to being one, this is a novel to shatter your prejudices, for Max Porter understands that even the most complex idea must have a decipherable meaning if it is to be of any worth to a reader." - John Boyne, The Irish Times
As an editor, Max Porter worked on Eleanor Catton’s 2013 Booker-winning The Luminaries and Han Kang’s 2016 Man Booker International-winning The Vegetarian
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