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From now until October 31st, any and all GoodReads users can enter to win a copy of by Iben Mondrup, translated from the Danish by Kerri Pierce:

Stylistically provocative, Justine tells the story of a young female artist whose life is upended when her house burns down with all of the artworks for her upcoming exhibit inside. With little time left to recreate every-thing sheÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s lost, Justine embarks on a series of sexual escapades with a sort of doomed intensity that foreshadows the novelÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s final, dark twist.

Through flashbacks and fragmented memories, we see Justine as a student at the Art Academy first discovering the misogynistic order that rules the Danish art world, and later on as she constantly challenges its expectationsÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”both in the studio and in bed.

A personal meditation on artistic identity, creative process, and the male-dominated art scene, the novel veers between the erotic and the savage, resulting in a spellbinding read from one of DenmarkÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s edgiest contemporary feminist writers.