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A young English literature teacher negotiates between her writing and her livelihood, her morality and her heart, her selfhood and her family’s history. She moves between cities, seasons and two men: Nikhil and Zafar―their lives getting entangled across a decade of restlessness and upheavals...

Claire’s little sister Holly has been working on the millionaire’s playground of Martha’s Vineyard, going to barefoot beach parties and flirting with the local rich kids. But now she’s missing and none of the locals seem to care, including the police. They think a message Claire received is proof she’s safe. But Claire knows for a fact that her sister didn’t send it. What will she have to risk to find out the truth? Who are the locals protecting? And what does it have to do with another girl who went missing five years ago?

A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK! Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger. SUMMER LIGHT AND THEN COMES THE NIGHT is a profound and playful masterwork from one of Iceland’s most beloved authors that explores the dreams and desires of ordinary people in a rural town. In a village of...

Sommerlys, og så kommer natten er en roman om menneskers livsvilkår, deres drømme, længsler, skøre ideer og kamp med forbudte følelser og voldsom lidenskab. De samme personer dukker op skiftevis i hoved- og biroller, og deres historie og skæbne væves sammen til en poetisk og sanselig, burlesk og varm, livsklog og humoristisk beretning om, hvad det vil sige at være menneske på godt og ondt.