Sci-fi

Black oxen

by Elizabeth Knox
Sign in to track, rate and see what friends think.
Rate it

Description

In the year 2022 and in pursuit of her beautiful and not-quite-human father, Carme Risk enters "narrative therapy." Propelled by her memories and her father's journal, which take her from the Edenic island of her childhood to arevolutionary Latin American nation to life in northern California, Risk moves through worlds of romantic intrigue, machete murders, occult freedom fighters, and surrealist bacchanals. A roiling and wildly entertaining ride, Black Oxen is a hyperinventive novel of political revolution, black magic, sexual predation, and a therapist's couch.

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
CombatSkirmish-Heavy
HorrorChilling
SpiceModerate

Details

First published
2001
Pages
448
Reading time
About 9 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Language
English
ISBN
9780099437147
Series
Standalone

More like this

More by Elizabeth Knox