Caesaria probes gender warfare and class oppression. What is reality to those who have grown up trapped in their own bodies

without connection to the outside world? Nordenhök shares an astonishing answer

almost mythological in scope

through the tale of one eponymous girl.

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Investigates the dynamics of male power and female autonomy, and the role of women’s bodies in society and how they have been historically subjected to a range of patriarchal acts of violence.nDrawing on the dubious, dark history of gynecology, obstetrics, and medicine, Caesaria explores the mechanisms of care—as a vehicle for love, exploitation, violence, domination, discipline, and repression.nNordenhök is a contemporary Swedish writer whose work explores the psychological mechanisms of power and subordination.nFor fans of Elizabeth Russell’s My Dark Vanessa and Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise. Also for fans of Fernanda Melchor, Marguerite Duras, and the Academy Award-winning film Poor Things.nA needed contribution to the well-established genre of books about men abusing their power and taking advantage of young girls, such as Oleanna by David Mamet and Lolita by Nabokov.nInspired by a historical case about a baby delivered by one of Sweden’s first caesarian sections; when the impoverished, unmarried mother died, the doctor became the baby’s legal guardian and named her Caesaria.”n”