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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
Vendela Vida
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Description for Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
Paperback. Now in paperback: Atlantic Books is proud and excited to publish the stunning second novel by Vendela Vida, 'the hottest young writer in US fiction' (Guardian). Num Pages: 272 pages, frontispiece map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222.
A Radio 4 Book at Bedtime
'The hottest young writer in US fiction' -- Guardian
When 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843545835
SKU
V9781843545835
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Vendela Vida
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
Vida's prose has the purity of the Lapland winter that it describes... the writing possesses the clarity of church bells or winter light.
Neel Mukherjee
The Times
Beautifully written... The writing is deceptively light: you can skip through it, happily enjoying its spare, humorous style, but there are subtleties that call for slow reading... then the book ... Read more
Neel Mukherjee
The Times
Beautifully written... The writing is deceptively light: you can skip through it, happily enjoying its spare, humorous style, but there are subtleties that call for slow reading... then the book ... Read more