My Men

A spellbinding, darkly poetic literary novel that plunges us into the inner life of America´s first female serial killer ´This fascinating, off-kilter novel about a female serial killer is an unexpectedly thrilling read´ Karl Ove Knausgaard Seventeen-year-old Brynhild is in a fever - she can´t quiet the screaming world inside her. When an intense affair ends brutally, she flees Norway for America at the end of the nineteenth century in search of a new life. Changing her name first to Bella, later to Belle, she is driven from any potential refuge by an unbearable tension that won´t let her keep still. As Belle seeks release in a series of men, her yearning for an all-consuming love erupts into violence. In this breathtaking novel, Victoria Kielland imagines her way into the tumultuous inner life of the Norwegian woman who became Belle Gunness - America´s first known female serial killer. Written in prose of wild, visceral beauty, My Men is a radically empathetic and disquieting portrait of a woman capable of ecstatic love and gruesome cruelty.