Voracious follows a year in the life of a young woman caring for her dying grandmother in the company of her grandfather, her friend, and animals. Set in a small village which echoes with noises from a nearby slaughterhouse, the residents are eternally threatened by a landslide. While the grandfather renovates a house for his wife, the women care for one another, for the plants, and for the animals.

Małgorzata Lebda guides us through the countryside, changing seasons, through wildlife, illness, death, and love. Everything is at once fragile and full of life, animate and inanimate. Full of profound emotional truths, this book signals the arrival of a new international talent.

“Life and death are beautifully balanced in Lebda’s lyrical novel.” Olga Tokarczuk (2018 Nobel Prize in Literature)

“Voracious is a visionary account of the lacework of interrelationships between people and the earth. It has a hallucinatory quality – passionate, disturbing, memorable – like a dream sent to us by a druid. Antonia Lloyd-Jones has rendered this dream in a breathtaking English translation that seethes and flickers like the scenes it depicts.” Sasha Dugdale

“Voracious is gorgeous, vivid, timeless, a novel about a small place and a small family as a microcosm of the human family and the whole world at this particular moment in time.” Sara Baume

“A dark, gorgeous and haunting book about bodies, attention and care.” Sarah Moss

“Voracious is a miraculous work, at the same time brutal and delicate, its surprises enfolded in the quotidian and in the sublime.” Lisa McInerney

“A truly gorgeous book, rootedly visceral, full of the most breathtaking emotive bursts and teeming within its cadences of small but vital astonishments. There's an important story here, nothing less than the exploration of life and death and just how as one we all are with the natural world, but, inevitably, it's the language (rendered here in the most masterful translation) that elevates Voracious to a state of high art: wild, melodic, sacred, compulsive, gripping with its imagery at the most sensory level, this is a novel to be read and felt and savoured, then read again. Remarkable.” Billy O’Callaghan

“This controlled, spare and often exquisite novel is concerned with the seasons, the countryside, and humans coexisting with the darker aspects of themselves and of nature. … All of death and life is in Lebda’s short work, bloody, beautiful and intermingling. A quiet joy of a book.” Catherine Taylor, Irish Times

 “Lebda has a rare and fabulous sense of language, of the meaning of words, a way of anchoring  and transforming them.” Gazeta Wyborcza

“Lebda’s prose is exceptional - she has successfully created a microcosmos in which everything is interconnected, dying and full of life at the same time.” Polityka