My Men

My Men is a novel by Victoria Kielland that explores the inner life of America's first female serial killer, Brynhild, who fled Norway for America in search of a new life. Belle seeks release in a series of men, but her yearning for an all-consuming love erupts into violence. The novel is written in prose of wild, visceral beauty and is a radically empathetic and disquieting portrait of a woman capable of ecstatic love and gruesome cruelty.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 06 July 2023
Publisher: Pushkin Press

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.

Weight: 320g
Dimension: 223 x 144 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781782279273