Matrix by Lauren Groff

DETAILS : 

• Author : Lauren Groff
  
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd.
  
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 July 2022
  
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
  
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529157862
  
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781529157864
  
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 250 g

ABOUT THE BOOK 

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
AN OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Gorgeous, sensual, addictive' SARA COLLINS
'Brightly lit' NAOMI ALDERMAN

Matrix is a vivid historical novel set in the 12th century that reimagines the life of Marie de France, a real-life poet and mystic. Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, seventeen-year-old Marie is sent to a destitute and disease-ridden abbey in England as its new prioress. Refusing to succumb to despair, she uses her fierce intellect and towering ambition to transform the abbey into a thriving, fortress-like separatist utopia for women. The story explores themes of female power, queer identity, and spiritual devotion, portraying a community where women rise above the patriarchal limitations of their time through radical self-reliance.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Lauren Groff is the author of five novels: THE VASTER WILDS, forthcoming in September 2023, and two National Book Award Finalists, MATRIX and FATES AND FURIES; as well as ARCADIA and THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON. Her story collections include FLORIDA, winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and DELICATE EDIBLE BIRDS. She has been twice been a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, as well as for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and the Orange Prize for New Writers. She was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Radcliffe Fellow, a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and was named one of Granta's 2017 Best Young American Novelists. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper's, in seven Best American Short Stories anthologies. Her books have been published in over 30 languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and sons.

REVIEW

Visionary leader, queer lover, 12th-century writer ... the life of Marie de France is triumphantly reimagined in an assertively modern novel about female ambition and creativity... a highly distinctive novel of great vigour and boldness. From mystical visions that may or may not be divine, to the earthy business of abbey pigs, diseases and account books, Groff does it all with purpose and panache ― Guardian

Groff's writing is muscular and precise, her themes wildly resonant. Women are dismissed and contained, subject to misogynist attacks and abuse, but gain power collectively - "alone, together". Shockingly, this message is as poignant today as it was, perhaps, 800 years ago ― Sunday Times

A dazzlingly clever tale . . . gorgeously precise prose, always elegantly weighted and perfectly economical ― The Times

Pitch-perfect ― Telegraph

This is a remarkable novel: unusual, profound, transcendental ― Evening Standard

It's a breathtaking novel ― Financial Times

A thrillingly vivid, adventurous story about women and power that will blow readers' minds. Left me gasping. -- Emma Donoghue

Fascinating, beguiling, vivid -- Marian Keyes on Twitter

Luminous, divine, her masterpiece -- Daisy Johnson

An audacious piece of storytelling, full of passion, wisdom and magic -- Sarah Waters