Night as It Falls
Author: Jakuta Alikavazovic
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
'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 The Topeka School Amelia 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.
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
'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 The Topeka School Amelia 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.
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Author: Jakuta Alikavazovic
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
'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 The Topeka School Amelia 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.
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
'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 The Topeka School Amelia 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.
Night as It Falls