Night as It Falls by Jakuta Alikavazovic
Amelia was one of those people who destroyed everything and called it art. 'Jakuta Alikavazovic's sentences and charged silences bring individual and collective histories into unpredictable, illuminating relation. She writes with lyric precision while making the limits of language felt. We need all of her books in English.' Ben Lerner, author of Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School **Longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize** Paul is a student who works as a hotel night guard to make ends meet. Amelia, who studies at the same university, is the young woman who rents Room 313. Everything about her is a mystery: where she goes, who she meets - and where she comes from. Paul and Amelia become compulsively and inextricably entangled, until one day, Amelia disappears. Unknown to Paul, she has gone to Sarajevo in search of her mother, the country of their past and the ghosts who still inhabit it. But Paul, as well as Amelia, must come to terms with their inherited bonds and the paths that shape the future. Night as It Falls is a novel of high passion and low light, rich in vital ideas about identity, first love, class and contemporary anxiety. Imbued with melancholy and wit, it is the English language debut of a powerfully assured European writer.Jakuta Alikavazovic is a French writer of Bosnian and Montenegrin origins. Her debut novel, Corps Volatils, won the Prix Goncourt in 2008 for Best First Novel. She has translated works by Ben Lerner, David Foster Wallace and Anna Burns into French. She lives in Paris and writes a regular column for the daily newspaper Libération.
Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator from French, including works by Hervé Guibert, the Dardenne brothers and Jean Genet. He has been a finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and has won a PEN/Heim translation grant and the French Voices awards Grand Prize. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571342266 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571342264 |
| Title | Night as It Falls |
| Author | Jakuta Alikavazovic |
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| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2021-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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