The Sunlit Night, by Rebecca Dinerstein
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The Sunlit Night, by Rebecca Dinerstein
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From an exhilarating new voice, a stunning debut novel - which Jonathan Safran Foer calls as "lyrical as a poem, psychologically rich as a thriller".
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 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, 95 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, 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.
The Sunlit Night, by Rebecca Dinerstein- Amazon Sales Rank: #82341 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 493 minutes
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Unrelentingly quirky By Sophia “The Sunlit Night” has an intriguing premise. Frances and Yasha are two young people who have come to Lofoten, a remote chain of islands in the Norwegian Sea, each with a personal quest. Frances is trying to figure out how to move forward in her life, following the implosion of both her relationship and her family. Yasha has come to fulfill his father’s wishes to “be buried at the top of the world.”It’s an engaging concept and author Rebecca Dinerstein is a gifted writer – she really makes her characters, and, even more so, the setting, come alive. It's easy to see that she is also a poet - she uses words beautifully.What I found less enjoyable was the quirkiness of the characters were and how fraught with drama their interactions. I found it overpowering. As I read the book, I actually found myself getting tired, and longed for some normalcy here and there. This may be my own bias, but, for me, quirkiness is kind of like a spice – added to give a dish or a book nuance and flavor, but not necessarily something to be ingested in large quantities on its own.Other readers may find it whimsical and appealing, which I also did, in parts.I will definitely check out Ms. Dinerstein’s future works to see what she comes up with next.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL! By David Keymer This is a book about three characters, only two of whom are humans. There are the little touches. Frances and Yasha are the humans. Norway is the third.It’s a book of exquisite small touches, never too much but not too little. Yasha describes his father, Vassily, the baker.His father was sometimes eccentric, but never insane; not terribly attractive, but adorable, easy to adore. He smiled when he had amused himself and shouted when he was mad. His pants were yellow from dozens of broken eggs. [He was a baker, after all.] His hair was gray and long around his ears. His core, Yasha suspected, was made of peace.“His core [his son suspected] was made of peace.” What a lovely phrase that is! And it keeps on the same way through the rest of this extraordinary book, which never overreaches but in its modest way, says lovely things about what it is to be human, young and uncertain about where you’re headed.On the eve of her graduation from college, Frances’s near-perfect, future-ahead boyfriend dumps her. The scene where he does it is subtle but knockdown hilarious (I don’t know how you can convey both of these feelings at the same time but Dinerstein does it.) This is when her parents decide to divorce too and boycott her sister’s impending wedding. (The groom isn’t Jewish enough for them.) Frances can’t take it. She flees new York for an artists’ colony as far away as she can possibly get: Lofoten, a tiny island in Norway ninety-five miles north of the Arctic Circle. Frances is an artist, or wants to be one. In Lofoten she can indulge her fascination with color. Indeed, the whole book is suffused with color –brown wood, marigold, a lemon color sun rising over lime-green grass, a yellow house with windows and doors trimmed in white, “to add a little mildness, to serve as cream,” the color of the sky overhead in this Land of the Midnight Sun changing with the hour and day. Yasha? He’s there to bury his father, whose last wish was to be buried “at the top of the world." In Lofoten, these two temporarily dislocated souls meet. They strike sparks off each other, have a romance of sorts, and end up coming to some sort of terms with their lives.You can learn some of this just by reading the book’s liner notes.. What you won’t get from the liner notes is how lovely the story is, and how economically and elegantly it’s told. Even the minor characters are given their due: including Yasha’s mother, who by any ordinary standard of judgment is a word I’m supposed to avoid in a review written for family consumption.This is Rebecca Dinerstein’s first novel but her second book to be published. The first was a bilingual collection of Norwegian poems. She is a talent: she can tell a story and tell a poem, and sometimes, in this lovely book, the two almost become mixed together.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Life as a web of human connectedness By B. Case “The Sunlit Night” is an unconventional, brilliant, and humorous literary novel by debut novelist Rebecca Dinerstein. It tells the story of the summer that Frances and Yasha met and fell in love, or as the Norwegian’s would say, “they became happy in each other.”Frances is a 21-year-old college graduate who’s majored in fine art. When she’s not away at college, she lives with her parents and sister in a tiny one-bedroom flat in Manhattan. Yasha is a 17-year-old high-school graduate from Brooklyn. He lives in with his dad in a two-room flat above their bakery.The fated lovers meet during high summer on the Norwegian island of Lofoten, 95 miles north of the Arctic Circle. It’s an isolated and otherworldly place of stunning beauty. There are few people, but those who do call it home are an eccentric and solitary breed. Of course in summer, the great allure is the omnipresent midnight sun.Frances has gone to Lofoten to work as an intern for a Norwegian artist who has spent his life working only with the color yellow. He is making a public art installation out of a large barn and hopes this project will earn him funding by the Norwegian government as a public work of art in support of the public good. Frances anticipates learning “something about the world’s brightness from the man and his yellow paint.” She also hopes to “learn to be alone.”She succeeds at both; then Yasha comes to Lofoten. He comes to bury his father whose dying wish was to be buried at the “Top of the World” near where the Sami people live. As a Russian youth, he was very fond of one particular Sami hunter.The novel takes place in the present day and is narrated alternately from both main characters’ personal points of view (Frances in first person and Yasha in third person).Don’t expect this book to be any kind of normal love story. Typically love stories have a lot of tension and suspense. In addition, there are frequent scenes of great tenderness and passion, and the lovers may experience considerable danger and difficulty on the way to finding one another. Often, they become separated, but somehow find their way back to each other in the end. All of these separate elements are in this novel, but only very subtly; none is pronounced in the usual fashion.In fact, perhaps it is wrong to call this a love story, because the true focus of this novel is a celebration of life in general, rather than a celebration of two lovers. It’s a novel that focuses much more on the vast intricate web of human connections that have created the situation where the two young lovers can meet, rather than on the heat and heart of their love.The author is keen to persuade us that the purpose of life is this fragile spinning of a web of human connections; nothing just happens without being part of the web. As a result, virtually all the secondary characters in this novel are vitally important to the trajectory of the novel and each serves an important role moving the theme along…helping to spin the web. No detail about their individual lives is unimportant.What happens in this book is odd and wonderful, not because it is full of the pulse of love, but because it is full of the pulse of humanity. It shows us that the meaning of life is to be found in each person’s web of human connectedness.Was it appropriate for the love story to take a back seat to the theme? Could this novel have been better with more emphasis on the love story? More tension, suspense, and passion? Could this book have had a compelling love story as well as a strong literary theme? Frankly, I don’t know.What I do know is that I thoroughly enjoyed this literary novel as it was. It’s subtle, sparkling, wise, and accomplished. I loved the insightful humor. I took pleasure in the author’s literary craftsmanship. I loved the large quirky cast of characters and found everything about them fascinating and fresh. I came away from the book more content and happy in my own body and with my own life. That’s something very special. So is this book.
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