{"product_id":"all-days-are-night-isbn-9781590518908","title":"All Days Are Night","description":"\u003cb\u003ePeter Stamm, short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize, breaks new ground in this haunting novel about survival, self-reliance, and art, available for the first time in paperback.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Days Are Night\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Gillian, a successful and beautiful woman. Married and working a dream job in television as a presenter and cultural correspondent after years of drama school, Gillian has her life entirely under control, until the night a car crash irrevocably shatters her world. Her husband is killed and her once-beautiful face is disfigured. Forced to confront an existence without the face she's known for, she must put her life back together and somehow turn her tragedy into a story of new beginnings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn spare and unadorned prose, Stamm examines beauty, pain, love, and reawakening--life in its rawest form--with honesty and empathy.\"Stamm's careful, pared-down narrative, translated from German with great suppleness by Michael Hofmann, stops to notice all mirrors, all reflective surfaces or cameras, anything and anyone involved in visually representing the world. How can you see, Stamm's novel asks, when everyone is looking at you? How can you make art under that kind of pressure?\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] complex, psychological tale...riveting...intensely moving.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] engrossing story of recovery.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Quietly surprising.\" \u003ci\u003e—New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A postmodern riff on \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain...\u003c\/i\u003ea page-turner.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The lucidity of Peter Stamm’s writing contrasts with the complexity of his characters...he has similarities with Gerbrand Bakker and Helle Helle, whose protagonists are as opaque their creators’ writing is clear. In laying bare his characters’ vulnerability and illogical behaviour, Stamm renders the lives of the ordinary as fascinating as the studies of any anthropologist.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This brief volume speaks eloquently about recovery and reinvention.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll Days Are Night \u003c\/i\u003eair[s] the psychological implications of our beauty obsession and the insidious ways in which it can obscure selfhood.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A slim novel filled with big ideas about art and identity.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tour de force [that] concern[s] itself with the mutability of identity. Stamm eschews middlebrow concerns of plot and resolution...his narrative is centered on the ruptures in his main characters’ lives and their consequences. ...\u003ci\u003eAll Days Are Night\u003c\/i\u003e recuperates one of the biggest themes any novelist can tackle with austere, formal brilliance.\" —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stamm...gives this well-worn set-up real energy...His prose, in a crystalline translation by Michael Hofmann, is as sharply illuminating as a surgical light. ...A profound and mysterious book.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stamm transmutes turmoil into form.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliantly translated by Michael Hofmann...Stamm perceives that grief is insane and horrifying, a nightmare that does not need to be emphasised.\" \u003ci\u003e—Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant, bruising tale of shattered lives.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In a moment, our lives can change, our identities can vanish; if we are to live, we must re-form ourselves. In his elegantly-written and profound new novel, Peter Stamm investigates and tracks how one such self is reconfigured with scraps of an old life while moving-by-feel into a new one. With beautiful clarity, realism and compassion, \u003ci\u003eAll Days are Night\u003c\/i\u003e takes us deep into a psyche-in-transition; the result is a revelatory novel that probes our most closely-held assumptions about how to live in this world.” —Michelle Huneven, author of \u003ci\u003eOff Course\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Everything Peter Stamm turns his hand to is highly disturbing, acutely perceptive, and unfathomably gripping, and \u003ci\u003eAll Days Are Night\u003c\/i\u003e is no exception. In sentences that are plain and surgical, in prose that has about it a disquieting stillness, he dissects our fractured lives. A masterpiece of disorientation and control, \u003ci\u003eAll Days Are Night\u003c\/i\u003e may be his best novel yet.\" —Rupert Thomson, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Insult\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Party's Got to Stop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll Days Are Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a gracious variation on a bitter theme, and one in which the author's clarity of style comes to seem part of the cure: like a balsam, it soothes the characters' sufferings, and helps them back into their lives.\" —\u003ci\u003eSpiegel Online\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Stamm keeps his tenderly misanthropic gaze riveted on his unhappy protagonists. He is like a gentler version of the young Houellebecq.\" —Hans-Peter Kunisch, \u003ci\u003eSüddeutsche Zeitung\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stamm is somehow able to imbue his accounts of ordinary lives and universal frustrations with such tension that the books become unputdownable.\" —Felicitas von Lovenberg, \u003ci\u003eFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A book that makes life seem worth living again.” —Denis Scheck, \u003ci\u003eARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A delicate variation on a bitter theme—[Stamm's] linguistic clarity is instrumental in this story of salvation. With the power of a restorative it brings the characters back to life\" —\u003ci\u003eDer Spiegel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Haunting and wonderfully consoling.\" —\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan Germany\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Astonishing... [Stamm], with his agile mind and his receptiveness to contemporary trends, has once more succeeded in depicting the zeitgeist with an astounding precision.\" —\u003ci\u003eWeltwoche\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stamm produces writing of psychological acuity and great intensity.\" —\u003ci\u003eSaechsische Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSeven Years\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSeven Years\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel to make you doubt your own dogma. What more can a novel do than that?” —Zadie Smith, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With a patient and impressive commitment to realism, this Swiss novel follows the course of a complicated, troubled marriage…Though Stamm pulls off a quietly spectacular plot twist halfway through the book, he never loses sight of the quotidian things that erode or transform relationships over time.” —\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stamm’s cleverness is to align a spareness that works in translation with his characters’ instinctive fear of all things rich and intense. Lean as it is, his prose is wonderfully ‘literary’ in its fine integration of voice and story. The constant disorientation of his characters, their sense that their lives are interchangeable with any number of other lives, seem peculiarly suited to this era of globalization.” —Tim Parks, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stamm is a master of quietly deliberative stories. In \u003ci\u003eSeven Years\u003c\/i\u003e, as in the best of his work, he puts often simple-seeming characters through extraordinary paces, all the more remarkable given the Carver-like restraint he exercises in his writing.” —\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Stamm\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Sweet Indifference of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo the Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAgnes\u003c\/i\u003e, and the short-story collections \u003ci\u003eWe’re Flying\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Strange Gardens and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. His award-winning books have been translated into more than forty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. He lives in Switzerland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e has translated the work of Gottfried Benn, Hans Fallada, Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, and many others. In 2012, he was awarded the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2009, and \u003ci\u003eWhere Have You Been? Selected Essays\u003c\/i\u003e in 2014. He lives in Florida and London.","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301135732965,"sku":"NP9781590518908","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590518908.jpg?v=1767721261","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/all-days-are-night-isbn-9781590518908","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}