What Happens at Night

They had been traveling for days, first by plane, and then by train and ferry, and now again by train, for their destination was a place at the edge of the world, in the far north of a northern country, and not easily gained. What you have is an unhappy couple who go on a journey of self-discove......more

I knew from the first paragraph that I was going to love this novel, and then it kept getting better. The control of scene and mood here is exhilarating. The experience of reading this language is almost filmic--I experienced continual rapid-fire flashes of scene, and even impressions of lighting an......more

I just loved the nightmarish, cinematic, noir atmosphere of this darkly disturbing novel: Cameron tells the story of the "the man" and "the woman", a married couple from New York City in deep personal crisis. The woman has suffered several maiscarriages and is now dying from cancer, but before her d......more

An American couple – known only as 'the man' and 'the woman' – travel to an unspecified, and possibly nonexistent, north European country. Their reason for going there is to adopt a baby: the woman desperately wants a child, but she has cancer, and her treatment has left her unable to conceive. Noth......more

Bellissimo romanzo nella più pura accezione cameroniana: delicata costruzione sempre in equilibrio tra realismo e surrealismo, tra fiaba evocativa e dramma umano, tra ombre dense e intensi riflettori, tra psicologia e teatro. L’intera storia si compie su un palcoscenico pieno di colori, di immagini......more