Nothing Holds Back the Night A Novel

by Vigan, Delphine De

• ISBN13: 9781608199556
• ISBN10: 160819955X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-12-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

Delphine is a writer, an accomplished novelist, but she has yet to write the story that pulses most strongly within her: the story of her own family history. She begins with her mother, Lucile, born to a sparkling, idiosyncratic mother and a father who, though often loving, occasionally becomes dangerous, and expresses his love in damaging ways. After the death of two brothers, Lucile leaves home and, still a teenager, soon gives birth to to a daughter, Delphine. Young Delphine has troubles of her own, but is often forced to care for Lucile, still young herself and always marked by tragedy. Both women will struggle to create the lives they want, and finally to take control of the lives they have, each in the way that she knows how. Nothing Can Hold Back the Nightmoves deftly between lives and time periods, rich with echoes and gradual revelations, new finds in the present shedding new light on the past. Delphine de Vigan writes her most expansive novel yet with acute self-awareness and marvelous sympathy, investing her book with moral complexity and emotional depth. Singularly heartbreaking but universally relatable, it's the finest work to date of a novelist on the rise.

Author Biography

Delphine de Vigan is the author of several novels, two of them available in English: No and Me, awarded the 2008 Prix des Libraires (Bookseller’s Prize), and Underground Time, shortlisted for the 2009 Prix Goncourt.