Girls Against God. Jenny Hval

      This translation has been published with the financial support of NORLA

      This English-language edition first published by Verso 2020

      First published as Å hate Gud © Forlaget Oktober 2018

      Translation © Marjam Idriss 2020

      The publisher and author would like to thank the following for quotations appearing in the text: Darkthrone mini-documentary, bonus material from the CD compilation Preparing for War (2000); Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger (translated by Montague Summers), Malleus Mallificarum (1928); Darkthrone, ‘Over Fjell Og Gjennom Torner’, Transylvanian Hunger (1994).

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-895-8

      ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-897-2 (US EBK)

      ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-896-5 (UK EBK)

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      Names: Hval, Jenny, 1980– author. | Idriss, Marjam, translator.

      Title: Girls against God / [Jenny Hval] ; translated by Marjam Idriss.

      Other titles: Å hate Gud. English

      Description: English language edition. | London ; New York : Verso, 2020. | Summary: “Ellinor, a jaded PR consultant, is landed with an unusual brief when a colleague commits suicide. She finds herself working with the Norwegian Post and Communications Union, focused on a strange, inspiring story of one undelivered letter. What follows is a story of mundane lives raised to the pitch of heroism”— Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020016886 (print) | LCCN 2020016887 (ebook) | ISBN 9781788738958 (paperback) | ISBN 9781788738972 (ebk)

      Classification: LCC PT8952.18.V35 A7413 2020 (print) | LCC PT8952.18.V35 (ebook) | DDC 839.823/8--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016886

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016887

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      Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY

      Contents

       1. THE WITCHCRAFT

       2. THE FOREST

       3. THE EGG

       Girls AgainstGod

      A NOVEL

       Jenny Hval