Feverishly energetic and playfully creepy, an unforgettable debut that hurtles through the ghostly secrets of Vietnamese history
Violet Kupersmith is the author of the short story collection The Frangipani Hotel. She previously taught English with the Fulbright programme in the Mekong Delta, and was a creative writing fellow at the University of East Anglia. She has lived in Da Lat and Saigon, and currently resides in the United States.
'A fantastic debut... A wonderfully ambitious novel about death,
snakes and female revenge...recounted with a rich, hypnotic
lyricism.' The Sunday Times
'Loved this epic book – beautiful, brilliant, powerful, and
shivery-back-of-the-neck terrifying.' Madeline Miller, author of
Circe
'Violet Kupersmith’s Build Your House Around My
Body weaves together Vietnamese folklore and ghosts into a
visceral and brilliant read.' Stylist
'Fiction as daring and accomplished as Violet Kupersmith's first
novel reignites my love of the form and its kaleidoscopic
possibilities.' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas
'I am loving Build Your House Around My Body… it's
really difficult to believe this is a debut novel.' Jen
Campbell, author of The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the
Night
'Build Your House Around My Body is such an innovative, brilliant,
haunting and compelling read.' Nguyen Phan Que Mai, author of
The Mountains Sing
'A book a bit like the creatures within. It has fangs and claws. It
horrifies and charms. It is the sort of book you force on your
friends, just so you can talk to them about it.' Rowan Hisayo
Buchanan, author of Starling Days
'A marvellous, confounding debut that moves from eerie Vietnamese
forests to rundown zoos and crowded nightclubs… A hugely impressive
debut.' Guardian
'A labyrinthine, shape-shifting novel, deep in magical realism
territory.’ New Internationalist
'Creepy, exciting, moving, insanely funny: a sweat-soaked reading
delight... An absolute triumph of storytelling.' Nick
Bradley, author of The Cat and the City
'Intricately plotted, flamboyantly original... By
turns steamy, grisly, comic, horrific, and touching. This
literally haunting tale will stay with you long after the last page
is turned.' Valerie Martin, author of Property
'Dazzling... I had the sense that Violet Kupersmith’s eerie and
electric debut novel was spreading beyond the bounds of the page
and seeping into my life... A thrilling read, acrobatic and filled
with verve.' New York Times
'What a joy to return to the numinously spooky world of [Violet]
Kupersmith and find the ghosts of history and family still haunting
her pages... Gorgeous, completely original, and quite disturbing,
usually all three at the same time.' Karen Joy Fowler, New
York Times-bestselling author of Booth
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