The All-Night Sun
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A lonely young woman gets too close to her charismatic female student in this propulsive debut, culminating in a dangerously debauched Midsommar s Eve.
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A lonely young woman gets too close to her charismatic female student in this propulsive debut, culminating in a dangerously debauched Midsommar s Eve. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD Memorable and meaningful. Claire Messud, New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Girl
Lauren Cress teaches writing at a small college outside of Washington, DC. In the classroom, she is poised, smart, and kind, well liked by her students and colleagues. But in her personal life, Lauren is troubled and isolated, still grappling with the sudden death of her parents ten years earlier. She seems to exist at a remove from everyone around her until a new student joins her class: charming, magnetic Siri, who appears to be everything Lauren wishes she could be. They fall headlong into an all-consuming friendship that makes Lauren feel as though she is reclaiming her lost adolescence.
When Siri invites her on a trip home to Sweden for the summer, Lauren impulsively accepts, intrigued by how Siri describes it: green, fresh, and new, everything just thawing out. But once there, Lauren finds herself drawn to Siri s enigmatic, brooding brother, Magnus. Siri is resentful, and Lauren starts to see a new side of her friend: selfish, reckless, self-destructive, even cruel. On their last night together, Lauren accompanies Siri and her friends on a seaside camping trip to celebrate Midsommar s Eve, a night when no one sleeps, boundaries blur, and under the light of the unsetting sun, things take a dark turn.
Ultimately, Lauren must acknowledge the truth of what happened with Siri and come to terms with her own tragic past in this gorgeously written, deeply felt debut about the transformative relationships that often come to us when things feel darkest.
Praise for The All-Night Sun
Inventive and luminous . . . Zinna s intimate debut dazzles with original language,
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emotional sentience, and Swedish folklore as it plumbs the depths of grief, loss, and friendship . . . Zinna reaches an inspired emotional depth that, as the title signifies, never stops blazing. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Chapter 1I taught English composition in the international program at Stella Maris, a small Catholic college outside of Washington, D.C. I was a popular teacher. When class started, my show started. I led with a gentle authority I never quite exacted in real life. The students all wanted to be my favorite. No one was ever disrespectful or unprepared. The other professors complained about their problem students, about how out-of-control some of them were, but I never had behavior issues in my classroom. I loved my students. They participated, and I graded hard, so they worked hard. They didn t skip my class. Their writing improved.
It was the first job I ever loved. In front of the class, I was always in the moment, fully theirs and full of movement, completely in my body, hands chalky, sitting atop my desk, laughing at their jokes. Students didn t depart when I dismissed them. They stayed after to tell me about their childhood bedrooms turned into walk-in closets, the jobs waiting for them in their family businesses. They would bring me candy from their home countries and want me to try everything right then. They would tell me how empty an accomplishment could feel when those you love aren t there to see it, to say well done. I knew what they meant by that. A check mark in the margin of their paper, a nod, a smile.
Many of them would write about being new to the country and all the ways they were struggling to fit in. They didn t realize how much I connected with them, how keenly I felt their descriptions of not having the right words, of not being in on the jokes, of laughing along to something you didn t understand when laughter was the last thing your homesick heart could bear. Grief can feel like homesickness.
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I was just an adjunct, but I thought that having a few hours each day in front of the room, having the students rapt interest and respect, made up for some things. I wasn t liked by several of the other professors in my department. Maybe they thought I was too young, or that I talked too softly, or too fast. I started out liking them very much. The first semester, some would ask me an occasional question, dropping breadcrumbs because they knew I was hungry for conversation. Weren t you working in the college library before this? How is it that you re now teaching in the international program? I d realize, too late, that I was confessing to them parts meant for friends a glimmer of connection with a student, a better way to teach something. They brooded. They didn t like any of my ideas. They didn t like that I d never completed my thesis, that I taught at Stella Maris without a PhD.
Was that applause coming from your classroom, Lauren?
Yes, but it wasn t for me. Someone shared their paper and it moved the others.
Well, of course it wasn t for you. Do you hear that? She thinks we thought the students were applauding for her. Just close your door, will you? It s a distraction.
I could have borne it all more easily with one good friend.
It was a wintry January morning when Siri Bergström first came to class early with steaming coffee, one cup in each hand, her portfolio case slung across her back.
I d noticed her in class. She always sat in the front row, off to my right. When students came in, she would acknowledge each one, sharing a sigh with a girl who also had a long walk from the dormitory, quickly trading notes from a math class with another, always smiling, telling them hej, the other students waving at her, the whole classroom gently tipping in her direction.
You are so young to be a teacher, right?
We sat opposite each other in the stillness of my first-floor classroom. Bright, floor-to-ceiling windows met behind her at a sharp glass
I was just an adjunct, but I thought that having a few hours each day in front of the room, having the students rapt interest and respect, made up for some things. I wasn t liked by several of the other professors in my department. Maybe they thought I was too young, or that I talked too softly, or too fast. I started out liking them very much. The first semester, some would ask me an occasional question, dropping breadcrumbs because they knew I was hungry for conversation. Weren t you working in the college library before this? How is it that you re now teaching in the international program? I d realize, too late, that I was confessing to them parts meant for friends a glimmer of connection with a student, a better way to teach something. They brooded. They didn t like any of my ideas. They didn t like that I d never completed my thesis, that I taught at Stella Maris without a PhD.
Was that applause coming from your classroom, Lauren?
Yes, but it wasn t for me. Someone shared their paper and it moved the others.
Well, of course it wasn t for you. Do you hear that? She thinks we thought the students were applauding for her. Just close your door, will you? It s a distraction.
I could have borne it all more easily with one good friend.
It was a wintry January morning when Siri Bergström first came to class early with steaming coffee, one cup in each hand, her portfolio case slung across her back.
I d noticed her in class. She always sat in the front row, off to my right. When students came in, she would acknowledge each one, sharing a sigh with a girl who also had a long walk from the dormitory, quickly trading notes from a math class with another, always smiling, telling them hej, the other students waving at her, the whole classroom gently tipping in her direction.
You are so young to be a teacher, right?
We sat opposite each other in the stillness of my first-floor classroom. Bright, floor-to-ceiling windows met behind her at a sharp glass
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Autoren-Porträt von Diane Zinna
Diane Zinna is originally from Long Island, New York. She received her MFA from the University of Florida and has taught writing workshops for more than a decade. She formerly worked at AWP, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and in 2014, Diane created the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program, helping to match more than six hundred writers over twelve seasons. Diane has become well-known for her popular, online grief writing sessions that have grown each Sunday since the start of the pandemic. Diane lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with her husband and daughter. The All-Night Sun is her first novel.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Diane Zinna
- 2020, Internationale Ausgabe, 336 Seiten, Maße: 15,7 x 23,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House
- ISBN-10: 059323023X
- ISBN-13: 9780593230237
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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[An] unsettling, mesmerizing debut . . . In gently hypnotic prose, Zinna beautifully explores the transformative powers of grief, loneliness, intimate friendships, and the hunger we have to be understood. Refinery29 Explosive. Electric Literature
Diane Zinna s The All-Night Sun is an unexpected love story about rebirth after loss, about the human connections that art and literature enable, about the adventures we undertake and the tales we tell ourselves to get by. It s also about risk and sorrow, about how our stories can fatefully mask reality. This is a memorable and meaningful novel. Claire Messud,New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Girl
This stunning debut novel explores the space between dreams and nightmares, life and death, the brilliance of the midnight sun and the darkness when you shut your eyes. Diane Zinna has given us a tender, aching, and unforgettable story. Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth
Zinna renders all the vivid saturations of grief, but not just that: she also traces the complicated fretwork of young friendship. This book shows how coming-of-age and elegy can be the same story. Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves
Sensuous and hypnotic Diane Zinna has gifted an empathic prose-poem to anyone who has felt displaced by loss and in search of a path out of the stalemate of memory. Pamela Erens, author of Eleven Hours and The Virgins
In lyrical, dreamlike prose, Diane Zinna s mångata leads her characters from profound loss to the promise of wounds healed. An impressive debut by a gifted writer. Chris Cander, author of The Weight of a Piano
An essential addition to fiction on grief and a compelling story about female friendship, its limits and constraints, and the surprising ways it can make us whole.
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Natalie Jenner, author of The Jane Austen Society
Zinna offers everything I come to a novel hoping for a compelling protagonist, graceful prose, first-rate storytelling, and deep compassion for her characters. Lori Ostlund, author of After the Parade
A provocative examination of the often-blurred boundaries between teacher and student, as well as the disorienting effects of grief, written in language so suffused with light and color that it s hard to look away from Zinna s words. Jennifer Stiel, author of Exile Music
In The All-Night Sun, author Diane Zinna displays her deep understanding of the writing craft .Her stunning debut novel is a twisting tale of grief, hope and self-deceit, a story as mesmerizing as the young women at its heart. BookPage (starred review)
Inventive and luminous . Zinna s intimate debut dazzles with original language, emotional sentience, and Swedish folklore as it plumbs the depths of grief, loss, and friendship [and] reaches an inspired emotional depth that, as the title signifies, never stops blazing. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Zinna offers everything I come to a novel hoping for a compelling protagonist, graceful prose, first-rate storytelling, and deep compassion for her characters. Lori Ostlund, author of After the Parade
A provocative examination of the often-blurred boundaries between teacher and student, as well as the disorienting effects of grief, written in language so suffused with light and color that it s hard to look away from Zinna s words. Jennifer Stiel, author of Exile Music
In The All-Night Sun, author Diane Zinna displays her deep understanding of the writing craft .Her stunning debut novel is a twisting tale of grief, hope and self-deceit, a story as mesmerizing as the young women at its heart. BookPage (starred review)
Inventive and luminous . Zinna s intimate debut dazzles with original language, emotional sentience, and Swedish folklore as it plumbs the depths of grief, loss, and friendship [and] reaches an inspired emotional depth that, as the title signifies, never stops blazing. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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