Eileen

Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Penguin Press. It is Moshfegh's first novel. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize in September of that year. The story concerns an unhappy 24-year-old woman named Eileen who works at a prison, and what happens to her during a bitter Massachusetts winter in 1964.

Otessa Moshfegh's haunting and the award-winning novel is a melancholy yet enthralling heir to the works of literary giants such as Shirley Jackson and Flannery O'Connor. Moshfegh's protagonist, who works as a counselor in a juvenile detention facility for adolescent males, discloses the novel's thesis in an unsettlingly direct manner at the end of the first chapter: "This is the tale of how I disappeared". Moshfegh's writing is similarly straightforward, with each phrase aiming for the reader's jugular. Eileen, who is gritty, harsh, and especially disturbing, holds a mirror up to the evil that lurks within each of you and does it without apologies. This work is more than a thriller since it is both beautiful and terrifying. It's contemplation about mankind.

Detailed information:

Author: Ottessa Moshfegh

Language: English

Genre: Thriller

Link to buy: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318512/eileen-by-ottessa-moshfegh/