Matrix
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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- 3,99 €
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
AN OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Gorgeous, sensual, addictive' SARA COLLINS
'Brightly lit' NAOMI ALDERMAN
Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court and sent to Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey.
Lauren Groff's modern masterpiece is about the establishment of a female utopia.
'A propulsive, captivating read' BRIT BENNETT
'Fascinating, beguiling, vivid' MARIAN KEYES
'A dazzlingly clever tale' THE TIMES
'A thrillingly vivid, adventurous story about women and power that will blow readers' minds. Left me gasping' EMMA DONOGHUE
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The fourth novel from acclaimed author Lauren Groff is a bona fide showstopper: a tempestuous, poetic and endlessly surprising ode to women’s power—divine and otherwise. Matrix crafts a largely fictionalised account of 12th-century French poet Marie de France, cast here as the illegitimate daughter of royalty who is banished to a failing, illness-infested English abbey, where she defies the crown and the pope to lift up her fellow nuns. Groff is an exceptional storyteller. The novel’s magic lies in Marie’s clarion voice and her unwavering, almost fanatical dedication to creating a closed society run entirely by women. We couldn’t get enough of this dizzyingly creative and unabashedly passionate depiction of cloistered life in the Middle Ages.
