The Stain

Title: The Stain
Author: Rikki Ducornet
Fiction: 1679732
ISBN: 9781628975659
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Section: Fiction | Historical | General
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:

The provocative, spellbinding debut novel, set in a village in the Loire Valley in the late 19th century, by prolific worldbuilder Rikki Ducornet. In The Stain, Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession, and the rape of innocence. Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality, at once surreal, hilarious, and terrifying.