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Book

Hexes of the deadwood forest

Call Number

  • FICTION SZPI (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First hardcover edition.

Languages

Translated from the Polish.

Publication Information

New York : Pantheon Books, 2026.

Physical Description

356 pages ; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Heksy. English

Summary

"An explosive, jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she's filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, a calamity that unravels her mind, spiraling her through history until she's united with a centuries-old coven of ecstatically revolutionary women. Anna Frenza hates the tyrannical tree huggers and the idiotic eco-warriors--after all, she's the CEO of Poland's biggest oil company. But then she finds herself in a trance, sleepwalking into the woods and making love to a tree, manically--all caught on camera. Her career ends and, in the fallout, she discovers her husband's disturbing secret. Her mind splinters until she is no longer Anna Frenza, CEO. Now--whether by delusion or possession of spirit--she lives in the Duchy of Nysa, a medieval province ruled by the Catholic Church. From her psychiatric bed, Anna falls in with Mathilde Spalt, leader of the Earthen Ones--a congregation of women who live in the woods and reject all patriarchy, instead engaging in ecstatic, sensuous worship of Mother Earth. Through Mathilde, Anna learns to love the forest, preaching and practicing the emancipatory rituals of the Earthen Ones...until the Church decides to fell the forest and all the women within it."-- Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Added Authors

Scotia Gilroy