24/10/2025
✨📚 Rosetta Versos is thrilled to announce the incoming release of "The Male God", the debut novel by author Eeva Maria al-Khazaali on January 2026.
Editorial team: Andy Willoughby and Zoila Forss - Crespo Moreyra
Eeva Maria al-Khazaali (previously known as Eeva Karhunen) is a Finnish poet, mentor, feminist, romantic and an art school drop-out. Her written work is featured in various international anthologies, press and publishers around the globe.
"The Male God" is her debut novel. This minimalistic novel pushes the boundaries of the narrative. It intertwines the romantic and the experimental into philosophical meditation.
“Even if I lived alone, gave him all the suns and moons,
the whole Universe and it wouldn’t belong to anyone anymore,
I wouldn’t be irreplaceable to him.
These sentences are the whole thing I can give.”
These sentiments echo throughout literature and culture.
How does love shape one’s art? Perhaps love isn’t the proper word. Perhaps The Male God is an unflinching, yet sardonic gaze at the obsessions we bestow upon strangers, and the many quiet resolutions dedicated to them.
The story might take place in the fictional café of a fictional town in the fictional early 2010’s but it happens in front of the reader’s very eyes. Like a contemporary John Fowles, Eeva will keep you engaged to the most bitter end through her minimalist style, self-reflective tone and a healhy dose of coffee.
Picture of the author by Isabel Andersson.
