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The School of Night: A Novel

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This dark twist on Christopher Marlowe’s classic play Doctor Faustus is a cautionary tale about the price of success and the moral dilemma that follows.

A National Book Award finalist in Translated Literature • Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by Vulture

London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all.


Kristian Hadeland, young and ambitious, has moved to London to study photography; he knows that he and his art are destined for more. His family never understood him, and his fellow photography students bore him. But when he meets Hans, an eccentric Dut...

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