Night as It Falls

Review '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 and The Topeka School This is brilliant writing with a lingering depth charge. It has beauty and contemporary resonance as it calmly, skillfully spins light on collective and individual wounds - while never stripping its protagonists of their flaws or mystery. -- Deborah Levy Product Description 'Jakuta Alikavazovic writes with lyric precision while making the limits of language felt. We need all of her books in English.' Ben Lerner **Longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize** 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. 'A dark, brooding jewel of a book.' Irish Times Book Description Translated from the French, a multilayered 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. About the Author Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator from French, most recently of the stories of Hervé Guibert, the diaries of the Dardenne brothers, and Jean Genet's The Criminal Child. He has been a finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation - Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, and has won a PEN/Heim translation grant and the French Voices awards Grand Prize.