--- product_id: 112296332 title: "Lanny: A Novel" price: "KSh6385" currency: KES in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.ke/products/112296332-lanny-a-novel store_origin: KE region: Kenya --- # Lanny: A Novel **Price:** KSh6385 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Lanny: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** KSh6385 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.ke](https://www.desertcart.co.ke/products/112296332-lanny-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers There’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land’s past. It also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions, gossip traded on the street corner, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny. With Lanny , Max Porter extends the potent and magical space he created in Grief Is the Thing with Feathers . This brilliant novel will ensorcell readers with its anarchic energy, with its bewitching tapestry of fabulism and domestic drama. Lanny is a ringing defense of creativity, spirit, and the generative forces that often seem under assault in the contemporary world, and it solidifies Porter’s reputation as one of the most daring and sensitive writers of his generation. Review: Brilliant, innovative novel - Max Porter's first novel, "Grief is the Thing with Feathers" is startling in its innovative ideas and techniques. "Lanny" is even more astonishing in its style, tension, delineation of character and typography. Essentially a story about an unusual boy who disappears, we are drawn into his family life, his parents' characters, that of an understanding teacher, and the spirit of the forest. As the novel develops, society is depicted in all its self-centredness, hypocrisy and bigotry. A brilliant book. Review: Great read (wiggly bits and all) - I’m not usually a fan of fantasy but this is closer to Lincoln in the Bardo than Harry Potter. Dead Papa Toothwort is a wonderful creation. Highly recommended but best not try to read it on a phone as you may struggle with the wiggly listening bits and they are well worth reading. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,517,474 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #709 in Magical Realism #6,891 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 2,802 Reviews | ## Images ![Lanny: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91F5VnOG+9L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant, innovative novel *by I***D on July 7, 2020* Max Porter's first novel, "Grief is the Thing with Feathers" is startling in its innovative ideas and techniques. "Lanny" is even more astonishing in its style, tension, delineation of character and typography. Essentially a story about an unusual boy who disappears, we are drawn into his family life, his parents' characters, that of an understanding teacher, and the spirit of the forest. As the novel develops, society is depicted in all its self-centredness, hypocrisy and bigotry. A brilliant book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great read (wiggly bits and all) *by W***O on April 7, 2019* I’m not usually a fan of fantasy but this is closer to Lincoln in the Bardo than Harry Potter. Dead Papa Toothwort is a wonderful creation. Highly recommended but best not try to read it on a phone as you may struggle with the wiggly listening bits and they are well worth reading. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ how beautifully it lingers *by L***N on May 28, 2019* What an extraordinary book. Its delicate but perfect form leaves me with no real way to use my own ordinary language to describe it except to say that it's extraordinary. Beautiful. Lanny and Pete and Jolie will linger in my mind and heart, and Dead Papa Toothwort was terrifying and so much more viscerally true than our benign ideas of Mother Nature, even though both are creative forces. But nature includes death and destruction and raw urgent impersonal force and power, ideas missing from our Mother Nature construction. Part 2 was extraordinary, just the most perfect form for that part of the story, and especially coming on the heels of the ordinary narrative of Part 1. But Part 3 just kept me on the edge of my seat, reading as fast as I could but also being terrified of what I might read. Just such a wonderful, wonderful book. I'll probably read it again, and so that fifth star. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.ke/products/112296332-lanny-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.co.ke/products/112296332-lanny-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kenya* *Store origin: KE* *Last updated: 2026-05-20*