What Happens at Night

Resumen del libro

A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness).

An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It's a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child.

On arrival, the couple checks into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the lobby populated with an enigmatic cast of characters ranging from an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse to a debauched businessman to an enigmatic faith healer. Nothing is as it seems in this baffling, frozen world, and the more the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself.

For readers of Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Strout, and Iris Murdoch, What Happens at Night is a "masterpiece" (Edmund White) poised on the cusp of reality, told by "an elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer" (Richard Eder, The Boston Globe).

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Peter Cameronx{0026}lt;/b (Pompton Plains, Nueva Jersey, 1959) es escritor. Estudió Literatura Inglesa en el Hamilton College de Nueva York, ha trabajado en el mundo editorial y ha sido profesor en varias universidades norteamericanas, como Columbia, Sarah Lawrence o Yale. Antes de publicar su primer libro, una colección de relatos titulada x{0026}lt;i De un modo u otrox{0026}lt;/i (1986), había publicado varios cuentos en x{0026}lt;i The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/i , y desde entonces se ha consolidado como un escritor de fama internacional. Entre sus novelas destacan x{0026}lt;i Año bisiestox{0026}lt;/i (1990), x{0026}lt;i Un fin de semanax{0026}lt;/i (1994; Libros del Asteroide, 2018), x{0026}lt;i Andorrax{0026}lt;/i (1997), x{0026}lt;i Aquella tarde doradax{0026}lt;/i (2002; Libros del Asteroide, 2015), x{0026}lt;i Algún día este dolor te será útilx{0026}lt;/i (2007; Libros del Asteroide, 2012), x{0026}lt;i Coral Glynnx{0026}lt;/i (2012; Libros del Asteroide, 2013) y x{0026}lt;i Lo que pasa de nochex{0026}lt;/i (2020; Libros del Asteroide, 2022).x{0026}lt;/p