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THE SUNLIT NIGHT

Rebecca Dinerstein

A major motion picture, based on the book and starring Jenny Slate, Gillian Anderson, Zach Galifianakis, and Alex Sharp, is an official Sundance selection.
In the beautiful, barren landscape of the Far North, under the ever-present midnight sun, Frances and Yasha are surprised to find refuge in each other. Their lives have been upended--Frances has fled heartbreak and claustrophobic Manhattan for an isolated artist colony; Yasha, a Russian immigrant raised in a bakery in Brighton Beach, arrives from Brooklyn to fulfill his beloved father's last wish: to be buried "at the top of the world." They have come to learn how to be alone.

But in Lofoten, an archipelago of six tiny islands in the Norwegian Sea, ninety-five miles north of the Arctic Circle, they form a bond that fortifies them against the turmoil of their distant homes, offering solace amidst great uncertainty. With nimble and sure-footed prose enriched with humor and warmth, Dinerstein reveals that no matter how far we travel to claim our own territory, it is ultimately love that gives us our place in the world.

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is the author of two novels, Hex and The Sunlit Night, and a collection of poems, Lofoten. Her screenplay adaptation of The Sunlit Night was made into a feature film. Knight has reviewed restaurants for The Village Voice and novels for The New York Times Book Review, and her essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, among others. A graduate of Yale and the NYU MFA program, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is the recipient of a Wallant Award for Jewish Literature. She lives and writes in New Hampshire.
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Published by Bloomsbury

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One of “18 Brilliant Books You Don't Want to Miss this Summer”.

Bekad

THE SUNLIT NIGHT will be shown at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival http://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2019-sundance-film-festival-features

“Quirky, exuberant . . . offers distinct turns of phrase with precision and beauty.”

China Times

Actes Sud

"This darkly charming début novel takes a thoughtful look at the uncertainty of young adulthood. Frances, a recent college graduate, flees her parents' Manhattan apartment and their disintegrating marriage to apprentice with an eccentric painter on an island in the Norwegian Sea. In the land of perpetual sunlight, she meets a heartbroken Russian teen-ager from Brighton Beach who has come to bury his father—per his instructions—“at the top of the world.” He and Frances fall into a relationship that provides solace from the familial strife that haunts them both. Dinerstein's prose is detailed, and keeps the novel grounded as the characters face the arctic summer's end."

Bloomsbury (simultaneaous pub. US/UK

"Observant and witty...[a] striking sense of place and effortless evocation of grief that push the two central characters towards each other."

“Dinerstein's special blend of melancholy and hope renders a character-rich, multifaceted story."

"Captivating with provocative insights about the cruelty of abandonment, the concept of home, and the limits of parental and filial love, Dinerstein's novel is a rich reading experience."

Norwegian rights, Aschehoug

“Luminous . . .”

"Two broken strangers meet by chance on a stark, sun-blasted Norwegian archipelago above the Arctic Circle; each has come in search of solitude among the mountains and fjords, but in Dinerstein's poetic debut novel, something else unexpectedly blooms.”