'Jakuta Alikavazovic writes with lyric precision while making the limits of language felt. We need all of her books in English.'Ben LernerLonglisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation PrizeAmelia was one of those people who destroyed everything and called it art.Paul 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. The two students become compulsively and inextricably entangled,until one day,Amelia disappears.Night as It Falls is a novel of high passion and low light,tracing two young lovers who must both come to terms with their inherited bonds and the paths that shape the future.'A dark,brooding jewel of a book.'Irish Times
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571342273Number of pages: 288Weight: 240 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mmEdition: Main
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