Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Softcover

Vida, Vendela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843545837 ISBN 13: 9781843545835

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

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 really takes off, growing darker and deeper. -- Jonathan Gibbs, Daily Telegraph

Graceful and inventive. -- Peter Carty, Independent

The whole book [has] peculiarly biting charm, a narrative that manages to be both eerily surreal and fundamentally credible. -- Madison Smartt Bell, New York Times

From the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1843545837
• ISBN 13: 9781843545835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272