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Peter Cameron What Happens at Night (Paperback). Title: What Happens at Night. Subtitle: A novel. 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. Further DetailsTitle: What Happens at Night Condition: New Description: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND JENNIFER LAWRENCE A Spectator and a Refinery29 Best Book of the Year "Like a Kafka story and a Wes Anderson movie combined."―LiteraryHub A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality 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. Author: Peter Cameron EAN: 9781787704244 Format: Paperback Country/Region of Manufacture: GB ISBN: 9781787704244 Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd Release Date: 09/29/2022 Language: English Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Genre: Fiction Subtitle: A novel Release Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.