{"product_id":"the-wax-child-9780241752746","title":"The Wax Child","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnlike anything you've read before, The Wax Child is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today  It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet - it watches and listens.  It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper. It sees how, in the candlelight, she gazes with love at her friends, and hears the things they say in the shadows. It knows pine forest, misty fjord and the crackle of the burning pyre. It observes the violence in men's eyes and the cruelty of their laws. In time, it begins to understand that once a suspicion of witchcraft has taken hold, it can prove impossible to shake...  Based on an infamous seventeenth century Danish witch trial, The Wax Child is the extraordinary new novel from Olga Ravn, one of the most acclaimed and original writers at work today- a mesmerising, frightening vision of a time when witches and magic were as real to the human mind as soil and seawater.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780241752746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 11 Nov 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 20.6(H)x13.8(L)x2.1(W)268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 268\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eOlga Ravn (Author)   Olga Ravn is one of Denmark's most celebrated contemporary authors. Her novel The Employees was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021, the Ursula K.Le Guin Prize and longlisted for the National Book Awards and the Dublin Literary Award. Her novel My Work won the Politikens Literature Prize in 2021 and led to changes in the country's maternity rights. She has also written shorter pieces for the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Granta.  Martin Aitken (Translator)   Martin Aitken has translated numerous novels from Norwegian and Danish. He has received the PEN America Translation Prize and the National Translation Award in Prose, and his work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Awards, and the Dublin Literary Award.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wax Child\u003c\/i\u003e proves Olga Ravn’s ahead of the game. She's the strangest - and best - young novelist in Europe\u003c\/b\u003e * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSomething truly special. \u003c\/b\u003eA wonderfully weird novel full of lines that will rattle around in your brain. * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery word in \u003ci\u003eThe Wax Child\u003c\/i\u003e feels spontaneous, every scene alive\u003c\/b\u003e, as if Ravn and Aitken had lived and breathed its mysterious atmospheres in order to deliver them to us. \u003cb\u003eIt is hardly an exaggeration to say that this haunting, gripping and singular historical novel cast a spell on us.\u003c\/b\u003e * The International Booker Prize 2026 judges *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlga Ravn is a master and an alchemist. There's nobody else doing quite what she does\u003c\/b\u003e -- Samantha Harvey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI gulped \u003ci\u003eThe Wax Child\u003c\/i\u003e down and dreamed wild dreams about it. Just brilliant.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Max Porter \u003cbr\u003eAn incantation that explores womanhood, motherhood and bodily autonomy. Martin Aitken’s mesmerising, exquisitely precise translation is, literally, breathtaking. \u003cb\u003eTo be read in one sitting, on a dark winter’s night\u003c\/b\u003e * The Irish Times – Books of the year 2025 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGorgeously mercurial.\u003c\/b\u003e The best historical fiction can turn the driest archival fact into revelation, and here is proof. * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA subversive tapestry stitched together with poetry, beauty and violence \u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAddictive and unsettling\u003c\/b\u003e -- Claire-Louise Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant classic \u003c\/b\u003ethat feels passed down from centuries ago and yet utterly unique, fresh, and modern. Another stunning, surreal journey from an author who seems to never disappoint -- Jeff VanderMeer ","brand":"Olga Ravn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48717329531097,"sku":"9780241752746","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/81n1Oz9mZdL._SL1500.jpg?v=1779023307","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-wax-child-9780241752746","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}