Nightfall (Best Foreign Novel of the 21st Century)

Author: Christopher Peters
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Nightfall is the German-language literature selected work in the "Best Foreign Novel of the 21st Century (2003)" award. In late autumn, Istanbul, young stone sculptor Albin and his girlfriend Livia travel from Germany here for vacation, trying to save their relationship crisis. But Albin accidentally witnesses a murder, and he privately investigates it. Meanwhile, a group of art department university students also come from Germany, and Livia falls in love with one of them, Yang. The author tells a suspenseful story from two different narrative perspectives and along two opposite time lines: Was the victim really shot? Why did Albin disappear? Behind the curtain of the story is the disorientation and collapse of a sensitive and fragile soul in reality, and the questioning of human nature in the dark.