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Kim de l’Horizon
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  • ISBN 9781399731447
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jun 2026
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE, THE SWISS BOOK PRIZE AND THE JÜRGEN PONTO LITERATURE PRIZE

'Powerful'
Times Literary Supplement

'Formally adventurous'
New York Times

'Everything about it is fantastic'
Die Welt

'One can only marvel'
Die Zeit

'An important new voice for a new form of writing'
Tages-Anzeiger

As their grandmother slides into dementia, an unnamed narrator begins to ask questions - to fill in the gaps, to resist the silence that shrouds their family. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past, winding back through generations. This matrilineal line leads toward nature, witchcraft, freedom. Could this be where they belong?

What follows is an astounding quest for liberation - from generational trauma, class identity, the limits of language. It's a search for other forms of knowledge and traditions, other ways of becoming. Bold and expansive, Blood Book is an unforgettable reckoning with the past, and a mesmerising exploration of who we are.

Published in the US as Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues
About Kim de l'Horizon
Kim de l'Horizon is a novelist, performer, and playwright, born in 2666 on Gethen, a planet much freer than this one. Their debut novel, Blood Book, won the German Book Prize, the Swiss Book Prize and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Prize. It has been translated into seventeen languages and was an international bestseller.

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