A Radio 4 Book at Bedtime'The hottest young writer in US fiction' -- GuardianWhen Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father. Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, discovers he wasn't her father at all. Abandoning her fiancé, Clarissa travels from New York to Helsinki, and then north of the Arctic Circle - to Lapland. There, under the northern lights, Clarissa not only unearths her family's secrets, but also the truth about herself.
Produktinformation
Utgivningsdatum2007-09-13
Mått131 x 198 x 19 mm
Vikt222 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagAtlantic Books
ISBN9781843545835
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Awards - Fiction 2007
Vendela Vida is the author of the acclaimed novel And Now You Can Go (Cape, 2003).She is the co-editor of the Believer magazine, the editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers, and is a founding board member and teacher at 826 Valencia, a non-profit writing lab. Vida lives with her husband, Dave Eggars, and daughter in North California.
Vida's prose has the purity of the Lapland winter that it describes... the writing possesses the clarity of church bells or winter light.