Victoria Kielland

Mes hommes

My Men

March 16, 2023
Novel
220 pages
21 €
9782494466043
978-2-4944-6604-3
Translated from Norwegian by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud
																Victoria Kielland, Mes hommes
																Victoria Kielland, Mes hommes

Bella Gunness is the first serial killer in history. Born Brynhild Storset in 1859 into a modest Norwegian family, she became a farm girl before emigrating to America where she murdered more than forty people, mostly men. It is her incredible destiny that is at the heart of Victoria Kielland’s novel: that of a woman whose class injustices, quest for absolute love and religious austerity lead her to murderous madness. From Chicago at the end of the 19th century to Indiana, she lures and then kills her husbands, her own children, her farm boys and other young Scandinavians who have just arrived in the United States and whom she seduces through classified ads.

In a chiseled, carnal text with beautiful poetic outbursts, the author becomes one with Belle’s torments, her erotic appetite, her insatiable need to be loved, the weight of Lutheran guilt that pursues her to this new country where she, like so many others, hopes to reinvent herself.

The author

Née en 1985, Victoria Kielland est une autrice norvégienne. Mes hommes est son deuxième roman, et le premier à connaître un succès retentissant à l’international.

Strong points

A novel based on real facts, describing as closely as possible the feelings of a fascinating woman.

A superb writing that evokes Sara Stridsberg.

A text being translated in 14 countries.

Press

“Prose that borders on the poetic and almost tactile. This great sensuality makes My Men, and Kielland’s writing in general, intriguing and extraordinary.”

Even Teistung, Bokmagasinet, Klassekampen.
March 16, 2023
Novel
220 pages
21 €
9782494466043
978-2-4944-6604-3
Translated from Norwegian by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud