Born with physical disabilities, Marek exists on the fringes of this isolated community, which is ruled over by its decadent lord Villiam from his distant hilltop manor. Its nominal protagonist is the shepherd boy Marek, who lives near the village of Lapvona with his father, Jude. Set in a medieval Eastern European fiefdom and narrated from a distant third-person perspective, Lapvona has the tone of a ghoulish fairytale. It features murder, starvation, cannibalism, rape and poisonings, among other horrors.
It follows the conflicts and tribulations of a cast of stupid, selfish characters. This underscores the one element that critics seem to agree on: Lapvona is not exactly an uplifting novel.
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