Sunlit Night

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 uprooted – Frances has fled heartbreak and claustrophobic Manhattan for an isolated artist colony; Yasha 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 five 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. In nimble and sure-footed prose, Dinerstein explores how far we travel to claim our own territory, while it is ultimately love that gives us our place in the world.

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In frumosul peisaj sterp din nordul indepartat, sub soarele mereu prezent de miezul noptii, Frances si Yasha sunt surprinsi sa gaseasca refugiu unul in celalalt. Viata lor a fost dezradacinata - Frances a fugit de durerea inimii si de claustrofobia Manhattanului pentru o colonie izolata de artisti; Yasha ajunge din Brooklyn pentru a indeplini ultima dorinta a iubitului sau tata: sa fie ingropat „in varful lumii”.