The Fabric of Night

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

By one of the most promising novelists in Germany today, The Fabric of Night is a frightening, profound reflection on the nature of illusion and reality.Albin Kranz is a sculptor, haunted by hallucinations and by painful memories of his childhood. At her wit's end, Livia, a photographer with whom he has lived for five years, suggests that they go to Istanbul to give there love one last chance. There, he witnesses a murder. But like one of Hitchcock's desperately misunderstood characters, Albin can't persuade anyone of what he saw, nor find any proof. His quest for truth takes him into the slums of the city and deep into the mysterious, exotic Eastern culture few Western visitors ever penetrate. The Fabric of Night is a psychological drama, a nightmare, and a double tale of disintegrating love.

Reviews

"Absorbing and strangely satisfying. . . . The Fabric of Night breaks rules and gets away with it. It looks like a thriller, acts like a character study and leaves the reader pondering." The Washington Post Book WorldBrilliant. . . . A tour de force of anguish and release, as beautiful as it is horrifying. Minneapolis Star-TribuneWriting about madness isnt easy, and Peters captures the feeling with a disquieting intensity. The Miami HeraldChristoph Peters decants questions about the nature of image, truth and art. . . . [The Fabric of Night asks:] Do we ever truly get outside of ourselves" San Francisco Chronicle

Author Bio

Christoph Peters was born in 1966 in Kalkar, Germany. He studied painting from 1988 to 1994 at the National Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe. His debut novel, Stadt Land FluB (1999), was awarded the "aspekte" Prize for Literature. In 2001 he published a highly acclaimed collection of short stories called Kommen und gehen, manchmal bleiben. Peters lives in Berlin.