All Days Are Night A Novel [Paperback]

Peter 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.

All Days Are Nightis 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.

In 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?  —The New York Times Book Review

[A] complex, psychological tale...riveting...intensely moving.  —The Wall Street Journal

[An] engrossing story of recovery. —The New Yorker

Quietly surprising.  —New York Review of Books

A postmodern riff on The Magic Mountain...a page-turner.  —The Atlantic

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 livelS¡