Night As It Falls Av Jakuta Alikavazovic

<p><b>¿Jakuta Alikavazovic writes with lyric precision while making the limits of language felt. We need all of her books in English.¿ Ben Lerner</b><br><br>**Longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize**<br><br><i>Amelia was one of those people who destroyed everything and called it art.</i><br><br>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.<br><br><i>Night as It Falls</i> 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.<br><br><b>''A dark, brooding jewel of a book.'' <i>Irish Times</i></b></p>