Jeff Bursey Recommends Things In The Night by Mati Unt

By on December 22, 2011 in Novel

Things In The Night by Mati Unt, translated by Eric Dickens

Things In The Night

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press (2006)

ISBN: 9781564783882

Cover Price: $17.50

The Recommend 

Worn out by holiday cheer, and the bland books by Franzen, Eugenides and Ondaatje that get tossed around as literary gifts? Looking for something that’s intelligent rather than merely clever, with a touch of the exotic? Then read a melancholy tale from Estonia, Mati Unt’s novel, Things In The Night. It mixes history, self-referentiality, terrorism, wistfulness and humour, and you’ll be taken with the narrative voice that addresses you, as well as the topics, in an amiable way.

Jeff Bursey

Canadian writer Jeff Bursey is the author of Verbatim: A Novel.

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