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"Rouge is a fever dream—a brilliant, intense, unforgettable horror story about a beauty cult with a deeply moving mother-daughter story at its core. Mona Awad’s signature and singular imagination and black humor and empathy are on full display here, and her wild-ride of a tale is masterfully...

Fin da quanto può ricordare, Belle è stata insidiosamente ossessionata dalla sua pelle e dai video sulla cura della pelle. Quando la sua madre Noelle, da cui era separata, muore misteriosamente, Belle si ritrova di nuovo nel sud della California, a doversi confrontare con i considerevoli debiti di sua madre e a lottare con le domande irrisolte sulla sua morte. Le cose si complicano quando una strana donna in rosso appare al funerale, offrendo un indizio allettante sulla morte di sua madre, seguita da un video criptico su un'esperienza di spa trasformativa.

*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* *USA TODAY BESTSELLER* A New York Times Editor’s Choice From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age” (Good Housekeeping) and “darkly funny horror novel” (NYLON) about a lonely young woman who’s drawn...

Für die perfekte Haut tun Mirabelle und ihre Mutter Noelle alles: Skincare-Videos, Kollagen-Smoothies und Dreifach-Peelings bestimmen ihren Tag, in ihren Wohnungen türmen sich die Tiegel und Fläschchen. Doch würde die Mutter sogar so weit gehen, für die Schönheit zu sterben? Nach ihrem mysteriösen Unfalltod sucht Mirabelle in Kalifornien nach Antworten und stößt auf La Maison de Méduse, das kultartige Luxus-Spa, in dem ihre Mutter Stammkundin war. Nach und nach gerät auch sie immer tiefer in die Fänge der Beautyfarm – eine surreale Reise zu den Abgründen des Schönheitskults und zum Kern ihrer Beziehung zu Noelle beginnt.

A National Bestseller A USA TODAY Bestseller A New York Times Editors’ Choice A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Tor, and Literary Hub From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm...