Night Work

Night Work

by ThomasGlavinic (Author)

Synopsis

There's nothing moving outside. No cars. No buses. No people. No birds. Nothing. No one. Anywhere. An ordinary man wakes up on an ordinary day to find that he's the only living creature in the entire city. The radio and TV are suddenly filled with white noise, there's no newspaper, the Internet is down and no one's answering the phone. Jonas is the last living being on the planet. What happened? How? Why? And why is he still here? Thriller and philosophical investigation wrapped up in an intensely compelling, eerie mystery, Night Work is compulsive and exhilarating - but don't read it when you're all alone...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 17 Jul 2008

ISBN 10: 1847670512
ISBN 13: 9781847670519
Book Overview: Thrilling and philosophical, compulsive and exhilarating

Media Reviews
Glavinic's masterpiece . . . A wonderful, big novel about the self and others, about fear and courage, about the fragility of the everyday and about the uncertain border between waking and dreaming. -- Daniel Kehlmann * * Der Spiegel * *
Glavinic has created a gripping mystery - a book that leaves its readers disturbed yet happy, and full of questions. * * Focus * *
One of the most thrilling novels of the year . . . a fantastic tale about the fragility of the individual. * * Nurnberger Zeitung * *
A literary tour de force -- Jonathan Ruppin * * Bookseller * *
Glavinic makes Jonas's purgatorial predicament as gripping as any thriller . . . there's a wakefulness to the zeitgeist in the greatest of authors, and on the evidence of Night Work, Glavinic is a truly great author, not just a truly great Austrian author. -- Stuart Kelly * * Scotland on Sunday * *
Author Bio
Thomas Glavinic, born 1972, has worked as a taxi driver, mountain farmer and copywriter. His first novel, Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw, made the Daily Telegraph Book of the Year list. Der Kameramoerder ('The Camera Killer') was awarded the Friedrich-Glauser-Krimipreis, Germany's most important crime award. He has written three other widely acclaimed novels, the latest of which, Das Bin Doch Ich, was shortlisted for the 2007 German Book Prize. He lives in Vienna.