What Happens at Night

What Happens at Night
Peter Cameron
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Trade Paperback
h210 x 135mm - 256pg
26 Aug 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781787703216
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A REFINERY29 ' BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR' "Like a Kafka story and a Wes Anderson movie combined. "-LitHub"[A] beautifully eerie tale of desire and death. "-Refinery29AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL CONFRONTING LOVE, DEATH, AND OUR INADEQUACY YET PERSISTANCE IN THE FACE OF BOTHAn American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It' s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. The couple check into a cavernous and eerily deserted Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the lobby populated with an enigmatic cast of characters ranging from an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse to a debauched businessman, and an enigmatic faith healer. Nothing is as it seems in this baffling, frozen world, and the more the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself. For readers of Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Strout, and Iris Murdoch, What Happens at Night is a masterpiece poised on the cusp of reality.
"What Happens at Night retools the Victorian ghost story . . . the novel' s indeterminacy is both intriguing and moving, because it means that one character' s loss is another' s consummation, and an unbroken night is both a source of terror and the condition of a long-desired resting place. "
Peter Cameron is the author of several novels, including Andorra, The Weekend, and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, and many other literary journals. Merchant Ivory made a film based on his novel The City of Your Final Destination. He lives in New York City and Vermont.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787703216
Published: 26 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Europa Editions (UK)
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 256

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