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History Keeps Me Awake at Night Christy Edwall

History Keeps Me Awake at Night By Christy Edwall

History Keeps Me Awake at Night by Christy Edwall


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History Keeps Me Awake at Night Summary

History Keeps Me Awake at Night by Christy Edwall

Margit is at the point in life when things should have cohered. She's married, she's got a degree, she's got friends who throw good parties, and yet she's still adrift, moving from one precarious job to the next. One day, a picture of some Mexican students catches her eye in a newspaper. The group of 43 had been ambushed by police in 2014 while travelling on a bus and disappeared without a trace. And so begins Margit's obsession with the 'desaparecidos'. As she heads off down the rabbit holes and cul-de-sacs of Google Maps, her idiosyncratic quest to uncover the truth of what happened begins to eclipse pretty much everything else. From a sharp and singular new literary voice, this is a novel that captures the texture of life in a frictionless city with drop-pin accuracy, while asking: is it possible to recover what is lost without losing oneself?

History Keeps Me Awake at Night Reviews

An intelligent debut... Edwall is a talented writer and I look forward to seeing what she does next * Observer *
Fizzes with smart observations on modern life * Daily Mail *
It is a zeitgeisty set-up, with the air of a true-crime podcast about it... There is much to admire about this debut * I Newspaper *
There's a real energy and poise to Edwall's prose and she has a delightful eye for the telling detail * Literary Review *
With its blend of fact and fiction, History Keeps Me Awake at Night holds its own among other notable books of the genre in recent years... Compelling * Irish Times *
Edwall's descriptions of Margit's life in London are starkly real, recognizable... Margit is a highly original and memorable protagonist * TLS *
A bold, highwire novel... Edwall has produced an existential psychological thriller for aesthetes and lovers of cultural London and the world... A story cleverly told of a young woman involved in contemporary forms of global voyeurism -- Sally Bayley
An intelligent and zeitgeisty debut * Big Issue North *

About Christy Edwall

Christy Edwall was born in South Africa in 1985. She has a doctorate in English Literature from Oxford, and her writing has appeared in Granta.com, Stinging Fly, the Southern Review, and the Times Literary Supplement. She lives in Brighton.

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NGR9781783788446
9781783788446
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History Keeps Me Awake at Night by Christy Edwall
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Paperback
Granta Books
2024-02-01
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