Night as It Falls by Jakuta Alikavazovic

Night as It Falls by Jakuta Alikavazovic

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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.

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Night as It Falls by Jakuta Alikavazovic

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.

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 9780571342273
ISBN 10 0571342272
Title Night as It Falls
Author Jakuta Alikavazovic
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2022-02-03
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.